While sending or receiving data from the source or destination the one common and important thing you need is the transmission media.

Magnetic Media

One of the legacy source of saving data is to store it the magnetic media like floppy tapes.

Twisted Pair Cable

A twisted pair is the combination of two twisted copper wire.used for the communication. Out of these two wires, one wire carry the data and the other is for ground reference. The twists is beneficial in removing cross talk and interference.

There are two types of twisted pair cables:

• Shielded Twisted Pair (STP) Cable

• Unshielded Twisted Pair (UTP) Cable

Coaxial Cable

Coaxial cables have two wires of copper inside.The insulating sheath is provided to protect the inside.The second wire is wrapped to that particular sheath and that too in turn encased by insulator sheath.This all is covered by plastic cover.

Fiber Optics

Fiber woks on the pronciple of light . When light hits at the angle of 90 degree. This property has been used in fiber optic. It is made up of high plastic or glass. From one end of it light is emitted, it travels through it to the given stream and converts it to electric data.

Fiber Optic provides the highest mode of speed.It comes in the two modes single and multimode. Single mode fiber can carry a single ray of light whereas multimode is capable of carrying multiple beams of light.