在电信业中，传输是一种传输电学消息（连带经过媒介的辐射能现象）的行为。消息可以是一串或者一组数据单元，比如二进制数字，通常也称为帧或者块。

传输可以分为两部分：

在一般信息论中传输被用于表示经由信道的信息通讯的整个过程。

In telecommunications, transmission (abbreviation: Tx) is the process of sending and propagating an analogue or digital information signal over a physical point-to-point or point-to-multipoint transmission medium, either wired, optical fiber or wireless. One example of transmission is the sending of a signal with limited duration, for example a block or packet of data, a phone call, or an email. Transmission technologies and schemes typically refer to physical layer protocol duties such as modulation, demodulation, line coding, equalization, error control, bit synchronization and multiplexing, but the term may also involve higher-layer protocol duties, for example, digitizing an analog message signal, and source coding (compression).