Hop (telecommunications)
In telecommunication, a hop is a portion of a signal's journey from source to receiver. Examples include:
- The excursion of a radio wave from the Earth to the ionosphere and back to the Earth. The number of hops indicates the number of reflections from the ionosphere.[1]
- A similar excursion from an earth station to a communications satellite to another station, counted similarly except that if the return trip is not by satellite, then it's only a half hop.
In computer networks, a hop is the step from one network segment to the next.
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This article incorporates public domain material from the General Services Administration document: "Federal Standard 1037C". (in support of MIL-STD-188)
Categories:
- Telecommunications engineering
- Radio frequency propagation
- Telecommunications stubs