Electromagnetic interference and its impact on broadband

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How copper based broadband services are delivered and the impact of electromagnetic interference.

We will look briefly at how copper based broadband services are delivered and then look at how electromagnetic interference can impact it and where does this originate from?

Part of Adastral's 2020 Christmas lectures.

Added: December 2020.

Suggested age range: 16+

Presentation slide deck (PDF, 2.23MB)

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Curriculum links

GCSE to A level Transition » Networking » Network hardware

GCSE to A level Transition » Networking » Wi-Fi

Data and information » Representation » Digital representation of sound

Data and information » Compression » Lossy and lossless

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