MULTIPLEXING

Communications Systems Glossary

Communications Systems — Multiplexing

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Information on Multiplexing

A communication system needs to convey multiple messages simultaneously from a number of information sources in one location to a number of users at another. Multiplexing schemes economically meet this need by combining the messages from several information sources to be transmitted as a complete group over a single transmission facility with provision at the receiver(s) for separation (demultiplexing) back to the individual messages. There are two generic forms of multiplexing: frequency-division multiplexing (FDM) and time-division multiplexing (TDM).


Other topics in our resources on Communications Systems related to Multiplexing include: 
 
  • Inverse multiplexer
  • Time division multiplexing (TDM)
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  • Demultiplexer
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  • Statistical time division multiplexing (STDM)
  • Frequency-division multiplexing (FDM)

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