Question

What does a bouncing signal mean?

Answer 1

Bouncing is the tendency of any two metal contacts in an electronic device to generate multiple signals as the contacts close or open.

Signal bounce occurs when a signal is transmitted down a line,reaches a destination and gets reflected back to source.Signal bounce is highly undesirable in a network of computers since bounced signal can interfere with other signals.One network Topology is bus, where all computers are connected to a single main line or bus.There are several different causes to signal bounce on a bus network.

For example, the signal travels down the cable, but if the cable is poorly terminated then the signal can bounce back from the poorly terinated end.This will cause interference with the incoming signal leading to more noise and reduce signal quality.