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- From: mitchell@mdd.comm.mot.com (Bill Mitchell)
- Subject: Re: Q: Are the Baud Rate and BPS same?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.200522.5007@mdd.comm.mot.com>
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- Bcc: mitchell
- Reply-To: mitchell@mdd.comm.mot.com (Bill Mitchell)
- Organization: Motorola, Mobile Data Division - Seattle, WA
- References: <1992Aug28.155701.218@news2.cis.umn.edu>
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- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 20:05:22 GMT
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- in comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc, smahn@vx.cis.umn.edu (Seokmin Ahn) said:
-
-
- >Hi! netters,
- >
- >The advertisement about modems confused me about Baud rate and BPS.
- >
- >Would someone please clear up this for me ?
-
- Probably not. But I'll give it a try:
-
-
- Short answer: When people say "baud" they usually mean "bits/sec",
- but not always. When they don't mean "bits/sec" they'll
- usually take pains to make that clear, but not always.
-
- Slightly longer answer: (from TNHD)
-
- baud [simplified from its technical meaning] n. Bits per second [...];
- this coincides with bps only for two-level modulation with no framing
- or stop bits. Most hackers are aware of these nuances but blithely
- ignore them.
-
- Even longer answer: (from DEC Technical Aspects of Data Communications)
-
- Baud: A unit of signalling speed equal to the number of discrete
- conditions or signal events per second. In asychronous transmission,
- the unit of signalling speed corresponding to one unit interval per
- second; that is, if the duration of the interval is 20 ms, the
- signalling speed is 50 baud. Baud is the same as "bits per second"
- only if each signal event represents exactly one bit.
-
-
- Another perspective (from Andy Tanenbaum's Computer Networks book)
-
- The time T required to transmit the character depends on both the
- encoding method and the signalling speed (the number of times per
- per second that the signal changes its value). The number of changes
- per second is measured in baud. a B baud line does not necessarily
- transmit B bits/sec, since each signal might convey several bits.
- If the voltages 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7 were used, each signal value could
- be used to convey three bits, so the bit rate would be three times
- the baud rate.
-
- And another one (from UDS Applied Data Communications Handbook)
-
- Baud - The unit of signalling. It is the number of signal elements
- per second. Since a signal element can represent more than one bit,
- baud rate is not the same as bits per second. Baud rate is the bit
- rate divided by bits per symbol.
-
- --
- mitchell@mdd.comm.mot.com (Bill Mitchell)
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