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A Modem

A modem is a device that modulates an analog carrier signal to encode digital data for transmission and demodulates a carrier signal to decode received digital data. Modems allow digital data from devices like personal computers to be transmitted as modulated electrical signals, such as over telephone lines. Modems are classified by the amount of data they can send per unit of time, usually measured in bits per second, or by their symbol rate, measured in baud representing symbols sent per second. For example, an early V.21 standard transmitted at 300 bits per second using two tones corresponding to two symbols at 300 baud.

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A Modem

A modem is a device that modulates an analog carrier signal to encode digital data for transmission and demodulates a carrier signal to decode received digital data. Modems allow digital data from devices like personal computers to be transmitted as modulated electrical signals, such as over telephone lines. Modems are classified by the amount of data they can send per unit of time, usually measured in bits per second, or by their symbol rate, measured in baud representing symbols sent per second. For example, an early V.21 standard transmitted at 300 bits per second using two tones corresponding to two symbols at 300 baud.

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A modem (modulator-demodulator) is a device that modulates an analog carrier signal to encode digital information, and also demodulates such

a carrier signal to decode the transmitted information. The goal is to produce a signal that can be transmitted easily and decoded to reproduce the original digital data. Modems can be used over any means of transmitting analog signals, from light emitting diodes to radio. The most familiar example is a voice band modem that turns the digital data of a personal computer into modulated electrical signals in the voice frequency range of a telephone channel. These signals can be transmitted over telephone lines and demodulated by another modem at the receiver side to recover the digital data. Modems are generally classified by the amount of data they can send in a given unit of time, usually expressed in bits per second (bit/s, or bps). Modems can alternatively be classified by their symbol rate, measured in baud. The baud unit denotes symbols per second, or the number of times per second the modem sends a new signal. For example, the ITU V.21 standard used audio frequency-shift keying, that is to say, tones of different frequencies, with two possible frequencies corresponding to two distinct symbols (or one bit per symbol), to carry 300 bits per second using 300 baud. By contrast, the original ITU V.22 standard, which was able to transmit and receive four distinct symbols (two bits per symbol), handled 1,200 bit/s by sending 600 symbols per second (600 baud) using phase shift keying.

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