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Degradation
In chemistry and biology, degredation is the decomposition of a chemical compound by stages, with well-defined intermediate products.
In telecommunication, degradation, which may be categorized as either "graceful" or "catastrophic", has the following meanings:
- The deterioration in quality, level, or standard of performance of a functional unit.
- In communications, a condition in which one or more of the required performance parameters fall outside predetermined limits, resulting in a lower quality of service.
There are several forms and causes of degradation in electric signals, both in the time domain and in the physical domain: runt pulse, spike, jitter, wander, swim, drift, glitch, ringing, crosstalk, antenna effect , phase noise
Source: from Federal Standard 1037C
10-26-2009 08:16:03
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