A method of sharing a communication medium where the bandwidth is allocated in alternating, discrete time intervals. Each user or data stream gets exclusive use of the channel for a fraction of a millisecond before yielding to the next. This allows a single frequency or physical cable to carry multiple independent channels simultaneously without them interfering with one another.
Heard on the job
The backhaul link uses time division to multiplex voice and data streams over the same fiber pair.
Also heard as
- TDM
- time-division multiplexing