Modems

Buchanan, William

doi:10.1007/978-1-349-14411-2_14

William Buchanan BSc, CEng, Phd²

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Modems (MOdulator/DEModulator) connect digital equipment to a telephone line. A modem connects digital equipment to a speech bandwidth-limited communications channel. Typically, they are used on telephone lines which have a bandwidth of between 400 Hz and 3.4 kHz. If digital pulses were applied directly to these lines they would end up severely distorted.

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Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Napier University, Edinburgh, UK
William Buchanan BSc, CEng, Phd (Senior Lecturer)

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Buchanan, W. (1997). Modems. In: Mastering Global Information Systems. Macmillan Master Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-14411-2_14

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