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Telecommunication

1) The future of home networking has been described as a “converged” communications environment. Please give your perspective on the key elements of this evolving communications environment.

2) Identify and explain two new growth areas that promise to have a significant impact on the networking and telecommunications landscape of the future.

3) Identify and explain two unique and distinct examples of home-networking applications.

4) Explain the main features (audio and video) and associated architectural elements of evolving large-screen video teleconferencing systems.

5) Identify two potential applications of large-screen video teleconferencing systems and discuss the relative merits of each application.

6) Describe the Bit Error Rate (BER) performance differences between Cellular and “Wire-Line” communications environments and explain the underlying causes of these performance differences.

7) Identify the key advantages of using a cell-like structure in wireless cellular systems.

8) Identify and explain three diversity techniques used to mitigate channel impairments typically found in cellular communications systems.

9) Explain the fundamental concepts of CDMA with an example.

10) Compare and contrast synchronous and asynchronous communication protocols.