Types of Communications Channels
- Digital (discrete) or analog (continuous) channel
- Baseband and passband channel
- Transmission medium, for example a fibre channel
- Multiplexed channel
- Computer network virtual channel
- Simplex communication, duplex communication or half duplex communication channel
- Return channel
- Uplink or downlink (upstream or downstream channel)
- Broadcast channel, unicast channel or multicast channel
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