Modems

Modems

Modems are devices that modulate an analog carrier signal to encode digital information.

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character

Network hardware; Modems

A representation, coded in binary digits, of a letter, number, or other symbol.

A data transfer rate generally estimated from the bit rate and the character length. For example, at 2400 bps, 8-bit characters with start/stop bits (for a total of ten bits per character) will be ...

class 1 and 2.0

Network hardware; Modems

International standards used by fax application programs and faxmodems for sending and receiving faxes.

cyclic redundancy checking (CRC)

Network hardware; Modems

An error-detection technique consisting of a test performed on each block or frame of data by both sending and receiving modems. The sending modem inserts the results of its tests in each data block ...

dynamic bandwidth allocation (DBA)

Network hardware; Modems

The capacity of subdividing large, high-capacity network transmission resources among multiple applications almost instantaneously, and providing each application with only that share of the ...

data communications

Network hardware; Modems

The transmission or sharing of data between computers via an electronic medium.

data compression table

Network hardware; Modems

A table containing values assigned for each character during a call under MNP5 data compression. Default values in the table are continually altered and built during each call: The longer the table, ...