Question 4705 – Data-Communication

In telecommunications, frequency-division multiplexing (FDM) is a technique by which the total bandwidth available in a communication medium is divided into a series of non-overlapping frequency bands, each of which is used to carry a separate signal.
The most natural example of frequency-division multiplexing is radio and television broadcasting, in which multiple radio signals at different frequencies pass through the air at the same time.
Frequency Division Multiple Access(FDMA):
FDMA is simply another example of the familiar data and voice transmission technique called FDM. This technique is used to allocate small portions of a large bandwidth (500MHz for satellite transponders) to individual users. For instance, a telecommunications common carrier in a particular country like Brazil. It might want 132 voice grade channels for sending voice and analog coded data to various other countries. The bandwidth required on the current international satellite systems for this many channels is 10MHz. Because 1 transponder has a bandwidth of 500Mhz, it could accommodate 50 users, each requiring 132 channels. The Brazilian user might be allocated the frequency band between 5990 and 6000MHz for the uplink to the satellite and the corresponding downlink frequencies would be 3765 to 3775Mhz.