Talk:Serial communications
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I am proposing to make ATM a subsection under "Packet-based communications", as I think it's useful to compare the general concepts for TDM and packet-based. Each of these would list and link to the corresponding articles: T-1, E-1, SONET, etc. for TDM, and Ethernet, Frame Relay, ATM, X.25, etc. for packet-based. Is this the appropriate article for this?Bert490 04:07, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
- ATM networks has nothing to do with serial communication, which is a physical layer issue. I have removed it as well as TDM.
- Packet mode communication or packet oriented communication is an alternative name to your article. What you suggest is also described in statistical multiplexing, asynchronous communication and packet switched communication. Mange01 21:49, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
There's a page for serial port and one for serial communications. There's one for parallel port, but none for parallel communications, which redirects to parallel port. IMO it would be best to combine the first two and turn one into a redirect, but I'm not sure and I'm not necessarily knowledgeable enough to do it. Any comments? Fpahl 14:51, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- I disagree. Serial communications is much more broad, and doesn't necessarily involve a serial port. Also, many kinds of serial communications ports are not called "serial" ports, but are given more appropriate names like "Ethernet" ports. --Rick Sidwell 2 July 2005 00:20 (UTC)
- I've got to second that disagreement:- Serial Communications are a pretty broad concept, used in all manner of places. On the other hand, a serial port is a computer connector (and associated bits). To draw an analogy, we wouldn't merge USB with serial communications even though USB is a method of serial communications. If anything, parallel communications needs a writeup. Mike1024 (talk/contribs) 23:36, 13 September 2005 (UTC)
- Okay, I created a parallel communications stub. Bushing 07:19, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
Is this an RS232 or a serial communications page? I propose that RS232C stuff be moved to its own page. At least, right before "COMMON BAUD RATES" make a section that delves into RS232.
