{"id":157,"date":"2020-11-28T09:53:49","date_gmt":"2020-11-28T14:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alpharithms.com\/?post_type=term&#038;p=157"},"modified":"2021-07-27T08:08:36","modified_gmt":"2021-07-27T12:08:36","slug":"propagation-delay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alpharithms.com\/propagation-delay-495309\/","title":{"rendered":"Propagation Delay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ae-first\">Propagation Delay is the time it takes for a single bit to transfer from sender to receiver within a network. The bit propagates as the <em>propagation speed<\/em>\u00a0of the network link and is dependent on the medium through which it travels.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ae-first\">For example, a fiber optic line will greatly reduce propagation speeds compared to copper lines. The network propagation speed is calculated by dividing the\u00a0<strong>distance<\/strong>\u00a0between two routers by the propagation\u00a0<strong>speed<\/strong>\u00a0of the link, as illustrated below:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_158\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-158\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-158 size-full\" title=\"propagation-delay-formula\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alpharithms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/157\/propagation-delay-formula.jpg\" alt=\"propagation delay formula\" width=\"1024\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alpharithms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/157\/propagation-delay-formula.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.alpharithms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/157\/propagation-delay-formula-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.alpharithms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/157\/propagation-delay-formula-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.alpharithms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/157\/propagation-delay-formula-450x225.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.alpharithms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/157\/propagation-delay-formula-780x390.jpg 780w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-158\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Network propagation delay is calculated by dividing the distance by speed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Propagation Delay is the time it takes for a single bit to transfer from sender to receiver within a network. The bit propagates as the propagation speed\u00a0of the network link and is dependent on the medium through which it travels. For example, a fiber optic line will greatly reduce propagation speeds compared to copper lines. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2472,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,260],"tags":[461],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alpharithms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alpharithms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alpharithms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alpharithms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alpharithms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.alpharithms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159,"href":"https:\/\/www.alpharithms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions\/159"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alpharithms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alpharithms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alpharithms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alpharithms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}