home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- On Mon, 13 Nov 1995, Jered J Floyd wrote:
-
- > So, at 14.4kps/2400 baud I'm encoding 6 bits of data in each state change.
- > And, at 28.8kps/2400 baud I'm encoding 12 bits in each. Each of these
- > standards used to have names like v.<foo> or CCITT <foo>.
- >
- > To confuse matters more, compression is also added. (That's why you set your
- > DTE-DCE link speed to higher than your DCE-DCE speed.) That's also why
- > modem manfacturers advertise '4 to 1 compression!', though through some
- > miracle they don't advertise the speed with compression. So, a 28.8 link
- > with v.42 compression (I think that's the right name) could give you up to
- > 115200 bps throughtput. But it's not very likely.
- >
- > As for the names of the standards, I keep scrambling them. I'm reasonably
- > certain that v.42 is the common compression standard, and v.terbo was a
- > (interim ?) 28.8 kps encoding standard, but I'm shaky on v.32 vs v.32bis.
- > Many modem manuals will explain these, though.
-
- You're correct about the concept, but wrong on the v.foo standards:
-
- v.32 - standard for 9600 bps transmission
- v.32bis - standard for 14400 bps
- v.FAST - interim (proprietary Rockwell) standard for 28.8 (similar to v.34)
- v.terbo - 19200 bps standard that didn't really catch on
- v.34 - the final 28800 bps standard
-
- v.42 - compression 2:1 (or is it error correction?)
- v.42bis - 4:1 compression + error correction
-
- And there are a few MNP standards for error correction and/or compression
- too, but most newer modems use v.42bis by preference. Hope this clears a
- few things up.
-
- ---Jake
-
-