Computer

Networking
concepts

Home Line Configuration

1. Data Communication Line configuration
1.1 Components refers to the way
1.2 Networks two or more
communication
1.3 Protocols and
Standards devices attached
2. Basic Concepts
to a link. Line
configuration is
2.1 Line Configuration
also referred to as
2.2 Topology connection. A Link
2.3 Transmission Mode is the physical
2.4 Categories of communication
Networks
pathway that
2.5 Internetworks
transfers data
3. Signals
from one device to
3.1 Analog and Digital another. For
3.2 Periodic and Non- communication to
Periodic
occur, two devices
3.3 Time and Frequency
Domain must be

4. Transmission Media connected in same

way to the same
4.1 Guided Media
link at the same
4.2 Unguided Media
time.
4.3 Transmission
Impairment There are two

4.4 Performance possible line

configurations.
4.5 Media Comparison
       1. Point-to-
Point.
       2. Multipoint.

Point-to-Point
A Point to Point
Line Configuration
Provide dedicated
link between two
devices use actual
length of wire or
cable to connect
the two end
including
microwave &
satellite link.
Infrared remote
control & tvs
remote control.
The entire capacity
of the channel is
reserved for
transmission 
between those two
devices. Most
point-to-point line
configurations use
an actual length of
wire or cable to
connect the two
ends, but other
options, such as
microwave or
satellite links, are
also possible.
Point to point
network topology
is considered to be
one of the easiest
and most
conventional