Twisted Pair- Applications Most common medium · Telephone network Individual residential telephone sets are connected to the local telephone exchange(or end office )by twisted-pair wire. These are referred to as subscriber loop Within an office building Each telephone is connected to a twisted pair, which goes to the in-house private branch exchange(PBX) system These twisted-pair installations were designed to support voice traffic using analog signaling. However, by means of a modem, these facilities can handle digital data traffic at modest data rates For digital signaling: connections to a digital data switch or a digital PBX For local area networkS (LAN Data rates can be around 1ombps, 100Mbps, or even 1 Gbps 66 Twisted Pair - Applications • Most common medium • Telephone network — Individual residential telephone sets are connected to the local telephone exchange (or “end office”) by twisted-pair wire. These are referred to as subscriber loop. • Within an office building — Each telephone is connected to a twisted pair, which goes to the in-house private branch exchange (PBX) system. • These twisted-pair installations were designed to support voice traffic using analog signaling. However, by means of a modem, these facilities can handle digital data traffic at modest data rates. • For digital signaling: connections to a digital data switch or a digital PBX • For local area networks (LAN) — Data rates can be around 10Mbps, 100Mbps, or even 1Gbps