Multiplexing allows multiple signals to share a single transmission medium by dividing the available bandwidth. There are two main types of multiplexing: frequency division multiplexing (FDM) and time division multiplexing (TDM). FDM assigns non-overlapping frequency ranges to each signal, allowing all signals to be transmitted simultaneously using different frequencies. TDM divides available transmission time among users by sharing the signal, with synchronous TDM transmitting data in a round-robin fashion from attached devices and statistical TDM only transmitting data from active devices.