Computer Bus, Coax and Fiber Media Utilization in Multiple Function, Multiformat Digital Facilities Design

Television broadcasting is now in the last phase of its 20-year evolution from all-analog to all-digital facilities. Traditional transmission means of coax and STP (shielded twisted pairs) are still the standards for interconnecting standalone equipment via routers. But stand-alone high speed computers now provide multiple signal processing functions in compact desk-top consoles, moving signals about on parallel buses. Fiber is coming into its own as the medium for transporting broadband serial digital signals beyond coax cable's cliff effect distances. — This is a tutorial on those transmission means.