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What is the main drawback of time division multiplexing compared with frequency division?

  • A.It cannot carry more than a handful of channels at once
  • B.It requires far greater linearity in every amplifier stage
  • C.It suffers intermodulation between channels sharing the path
  • D.It needs accurate timing throughout the system

Answer: D

Time division's cost is a dependence on accurate timing and synchronisation from end to end, which is why its early adoption waited on cheap digital circuitry. Channel counts are large rather than limited. Linearity and intermodulation are frequency division's problems, not its own. Each multiplexing scheme trades one kind of engineering difficulty for another, and here the exchange is linearity for timing.

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