This document discusses digital communication systems. It introduces digital communication as a mode where information is encoded digitally and electrically transferred. It describes common digital communication techniques like digital transmission and radio. It outlines components of a digital communication system like channels, causes of signal loss, and compares advantages and disadvantages of digital and analog communication systems. In particular, it notes digital communication allows merging different data types, uses error correction, but requires larger bandwidth and synchronization is more difficult compared to analog systems.