Hello good people,
I had a row, (interesting discussion), about what which the more complex network to run. Broadcast or Mobile Communications.
My idea was that something like the the BBC with all of it’s regional, national and worldwide compitments have a greater technical workload, (not moral I hasten to add), than an equivalent Telecoms network,
I appreciate the question is loosley based and one depends on editorial control and thr other on: ‘why doesn’t my my cell browser work’.
However how complex are they in practice?
Deep joy,
Peter
If you’re running a broadcast network, you’re essentially dealing with a one-way flow of communications – from the broadcast site (studio or remote) to the transmission center, to the satellite, to the local station, to the home. This is grossly oversimplified, of course, but the technical workload is actually less than it was 50 years ago when broadcast networks were patched together through a chain of company-owned cables, rented telephone lines and the occasional microwave link.
A cell network, or for that matter a wired telephone network, requires a vastly more complicated set of interconnections and switchers.