The second, and by no means less important, purpose, is that they open up a transmission channel for information from the recipient.
More information can thus be fitted into each available transmission channel.
It was said to be too sensitive for regular transmission channels, so a meeting was arranged on neutral ground.
A trunk is a single transmission channel between two points, each point being either the switching center or the node.
Often single transmission channels contain blocks of data at more than one of the rates.
The back-to-back connection eliminates the effects of the transmission channel or medium.
The general scheme is that half-duplex uses one transmission channel rather than two.
Each link has two transmission channels, one for each direction.
In this application the transmission channel is the CD itself.
I'll guarantee you they weren't right on our own transmission channel.