Repeater

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A wireless repeater. A repeater is an electronic device that receives a signal and retransmits it at a higher level and/or higher power, or onto the other side of an obstruction, so that the signal can cover longer distances.

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1 Description 2 Digipeater 3 Usage 4 See also 5 Repeater lists 6 References 7 External links

[edit] Description
The term "repeater" originated with telegraphy and referred to an electromechanical device used by the army to regenerate telegraph signals. Use of the term has continued in telephony and data communications. In telecommunication, the term repeater has the following standardized meanings: 1. An analog device that amplifies an input signal regardless of its nature (analog or digital).

2. A digital device that amplifies, reshapes, retimes, or performs a combination of any of these functions on a digital input signal for retransmission.[1] Because repeaters work with the actual physical signal, and do not attempt to interpret the data being transmitted, they operate on the Physical layer, the first layer of the OSI model.

[edit] Digipeater
A "digipeater" is a blend meaning "digital repeater", particularly used in amateur radio. Store and forward digipeaters generally receive a packet radio transmission and then retransmit it on the same frequency, unlike repeaters that receive on one and transmit on another frequency.

[edit] Usage
Repeaters are often used in transcontinental and submarine communications cables, because the attenuation (signal loss) over such distances would be unacceptable without them. Repeaters are used in both copper-wire cables carrying electrical signals, and in fiber optics carrying light. Main article: Optical communications repeater Repeaters are used in radio communication services. Radio repeaters often transmit and receive on different frequencies. A special subgroup of those repeaters is those used in amateur radio. Main articles: Radio repeater and amateur radio repeater Repeaters are also used extensively in broadcasting, where they are known as translators, boosters or TV relay transmitters. Main article: broadcast translator When providing a point-to-point telecom link using radio beyond line of sight, one uses repeaters in a microwave radio relay. A reflector, often on a mountaintop, that relays such signals around an obstacle, is called a passive repeater or Passive Radio Link Deflection. A microwave repeater in a communications satellite is called a transponder. In optical communications the term repeater is used to describe a piece of equipment that receives an optical signal, converts that signal into an electrical one, regenerates it, and then retransmits an optical signal. Since such a device converts the optical signal into an electrical one, and then back to an optical signal, they are often known as OpticalElectrical-Optical (OEO) repeaters.

Before the invention of electronic amplifiers, mechanically coupled carbon microphones were used as amplifiers in telephone repeaters. The invention of the audion tube made transcontinental telephony practical. In the 1930s vacuum tube repeaters using hybrid coils became commonplace, allowing the use of thinner wires. In the 1950s negative impedance gain devices were more popular, and a transistorized version called the E6 repeater was the final major type used in the Bell System before the low cost of digital transmission made all voiceband repeaters obsolete. Frequency frogging repeaters were commonplace in frequency-division multiplexing systems from the middle to late 20th century.

[edit] See also

12-channel carrier system Amateur radio repeater Broadcast translator Cellular repeater (also known as cell phone repeater) Complementary ground component Network hub - can be considered a multiport repeater L-carrier Microwave radio relay Optical communications repeater PLC carrier repeating station Radio repeater Repeater insertion in integrated circuits Signal strength Wireless Distribution System ADSL loop extender Relay transmitter Fiber media converter

[edit] Repeater lists

UBA Repeaterpage - Repeaters of Belgium Community edited database of repeaters in the US and some other areas

[edit] References
This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding reliable references. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (August 2007) 1. ^ This article incorporates public domain material from the General Services Administration document "Federal Standard 1037C" (in support of MILSTD-188).

[edit] External links

Repeater Electrical Engineer Standard Dictionary

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