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- From: naddy@mips.pfalz.de (Christian Weisgerber)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: are 'byte-wide' modems possible
- Date: 13 Apr 1996 15:42:25 +0200
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- References: <Ken.Crossman-1104961348100001@ts1-port4.mas.ualberta.ca>
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- Ken.Crossman@ualberta.ca (Ken Crossman) writes:
-
- > The latest word about modems has it that 33.6kb is about the limit.
-
- There's an asymptote somewhere around 40kbit/s, approaching which
- becomes increasingly difficult and requires increasingly perfect lines.
- 33.6kbit/s is the current limit in practical implementations.
-
- > If I understand modem transmission correctly, the modem encodes data
- > onto a phase-shifted audio carrier, with the speed of transmission
- > governed partly by the number of possible phase shifts per cycle.
-
- Basically correct.
- (It's a combination of phase and amplitude shifting.)
-
- > Could a modem be designed such that each phase shift represents a
- > complete 8-bit word, ie. if there were 256 possible discrete phase
- > angles then 256 (or 2**8) unique digital words could be represented?
-
- The idea is probably as old as phase shift keying itself and has been
- used for as long. Already Bell 212 or V.22 (1200bps) modems used four
- discrete phase angles to transmit 2 bit/sym.
-
- A 33600bit/s modem achieves this speed at 3429sym/s.
- (The number of bits transmitted per symbol is not constant with V.34,
- and there are redundancy bits inserted for forward error correction.)
-
- Sorry. :-)
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