Friday, April 22, 2011

All About Cordless Telephone

By Christine Jackson


A wireless telephone (telefone sem fio) is an electronic telephone that comprises of a wireless handset along with a base unit. Communication is performed between the handset and the base using radio waves. The wireless handset could be operated only within a set range from its base unit. The range of operation is generally within 100 meters. The base unit needs electricity to power it. Batteries are utilized to power the wireless handset. Placing the wireless handset in the cradle in the base unit recharges these batteries. A time period of 12 to 24 hours is required for recharging the batteries.

With functions like cell handover, information transfer and international roaming (on a limited scale), the as soon as clear-cut line between mobile telephones and cordless telephones (telefone sem fio) has now been blended by the modern cordless telephone standards.

Frequency bands have been assigned in every country for cordless telephones (telefone sem fio). Advertisements by producers claiming that there is a marked improvement in audio range and quality with greater frequency are a typical sight. But that is incorrect. Actually, higher frequencies have been observed to demonstrate worse propagation in perfect case. There is also a tendency for the path loss to increase with greater frequencies. Locally diverse factors such as antenna quality, signal strength, the modulation technique becoming utilized and interference are more influential than other elements.

With Landline telephones working on a bandwidth of about 3.6 kHz (a little fraction of the frequency that a human ear can interpret), the transport of audio is done with an audio quality that's just adequate for the parties to communicate each other. Because of this limitation in the style of the phone program itself, it is not feasible to improve the audio quality past a particular limit in cordless telephones.

The majority of the good-quality cordless telephones (telefone sem fio) attempt transferring the audio signal with lowest possible interference and best possible range. Even the best of the cordless telephones fail to fit the audio quality that a top quality phone wired to a good telephone line provides.

Sidetone (echo of voice heard in the speaker of the receiver), troubling constant background noise that's due to the cordless system, and inability to obtain a complete frequency response that is obtainable in a wired phone are couple of of the reasons for a not-so-good audio quality. Rare exceptions, clearly, usually exist that sound incredibly similar to a wired telephone. However even these are considered as `fluke` by most business standards.

Higher frequency is now becoming used in other house products like the microwave oven, Baby monitor, Bluetooth, wireless LAN, etc. Thus, cordless telephones (telefone sem fio) using higher frequency may face interference from signals from these devices.

Eavesdropping is a constant security threat for analog telephones. Any one with a radio scanner and within range can choose up these signals and listen to conversations. Modern digital technology is thus being used to deal with this type of unauthorized access.

DSS (Digital Spread Spectrum) makes use of frequency hopping, i.e. dispersing up of audio signal over a wider range in a pseudorandom fashion. DSS signal sounds like noise bursts to a radio scanner or any other analog receiver. This signal makes sense only to that base unit which has the same pseudorandom number generator as the cordless handset. Every time the cordless handset is returned to its cradle, a new distinctive generator is chosen from a large number of options.

DSS produces a signal spread that leads to a type of redundancy, which gives rise to improved signal-to-noise ratio. Additionally, it leads to raise in signal range and decreases interference susceptibility. It is easier to use this type of wide-bandwidth security option with higher frequency.






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