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Bits on a Wire and in the Air: Communication Systems from First Principles
A broadcast truck at a 45,000-seat stadium is paying for a hundred megabits and measuring sixty-something. The monitoring graph says ninety-four. Everyone is telling the truth. To find out why, and to find the real fault hiding under the arithmetic, we go back to the bit itself: Shannon, noise, decibels, modulation, OFDM, packets and layers.
Chapters
00:00:00 Opening: why a hundred megabits is never a hundred megabits
00:03:59 Claude Shannon and the paper that defined information
00:09:09 Bandwidth, bit rate and baud: three words people mix up
00:14:11 Decibels by ear
00:18:56 The Shannon…
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