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- From: jnm@ornl.gov (Jamey Maze)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: FAQ answer: modem acronyms...
- Message-ID: <jnm-140992171612@baloo.ctd.ornl.gov>
- Date: 14 Sep 92 21:20:01 GMT
- Sender: usenet@ornl.gov (News poster)
- Followup-To: comp.dcom.modems
- Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab
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-
- Friday I posted a note on comp.datacom asking for definitions of some key
- modem acronyms. A summary of what I learned is given below. Many thanks to
- Camillo Sars, Stephen J. Walick, Soenke Behrens, Lam Lai Yin Savio, Roger
- Nordin, John Wallace, Alan Edmonds, Toby Nixon, and others who replied
- after I composed the summary below.
-
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-
- V.32, V.32bis, V.42, and V.42bis are CCITT standards.
-
- V.32 - A full-duplex modem which can operate in either asynchronous or
- synchronous V.32 mode, with Trellis Coded Modulation, utilizing a speed of
- 9600 bits per second (bps), with a selectable fallback of 4800 bps.
-
- V.32bis - A full-duplex modem which can operate in either asynchronous or
- synchronous V.32bis mode, with Trellis Coded Modulation, utilizing a speed
- of 14,400 bps with selectable fallback speeds of 12,000, 9600, 7200, or
- 4800 bps.
-
- V.42 - A standard protocol for error correction which provides error-free
- transmission over a standard full-duplex, V.32bis, V.32, V.22, V.22bis, or
- Bell 212A connection, also a protocol which includes the Link Access
- Procedure for Modems (LAP-M), the main protocol used between two V.42
- modems; additionally, V.42 includes an alternate protocol, the Microcom
- Networking Protocol (MNP)tm up to class 4 to provide backward compatibility
- between V.42 and existing MNP modems.
-
- V.42bis - A high-performance data compression algorithm that increases the
- data throughput by a ratio of upto 4:1, only possible if both sending and
- receiving modems establish connection using LAP-M and if both connected
- modems are configured for data compression.
-
- MNP - Trade Mark acronymn for the Microcom Networking Protocol, class 1
- through 4 for error correction, class 5 for data compression increasing the
- data throughput up to 2:1, class 10 for extreme error correction on
- cellular data connections.
-
- An MNP5 connection includes MNP4 error correction just like a V.42bis
- connection includes V.42 error correction. The main difference between MNP5
-
- and V.42bis is, apart from the much better compression in V.42bis, the fact
-
- that V.42bis adapts itself to the data being sent, and shuts itself down if
-
- the data is pre-compressed, and thus cannot be compressed further. MNP5
- always
- sends the "compressed" data, and thus, on precompressed data, the
- throughput
- can actually be degraded, as it adds useless overhead to the data stream.
-
- Also, we have V.Fast now, which will be released somewhere around 1994,
- which will be 28,800 bps full-duplex communication. It will probably allow
- 19,200 speed on lines which permit 14,400 V.32bis today, and faster
- depending on the line quality.
-
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- Jamey Maze, Oak Ridge National Lab
-