A mode of communication in which data is simultaneously transmitted and received between stations. Full-duplex communication is twice as fast as half-duplex communication, and typically uses two separate pairs of wires (or two channels for wireless networking) for supporting simultaneous transmission and reception by a host. An alternative arrangement is to use some multiplexing technique, such as time-division multiplexing (TDM), to interleave transmission and reception on a single channel. This does not produce true full-duplex communication, but to an ordinary user it might appear to do so if the interleaving process is fast enough.