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K56flex Definition from Computer & Internet Dictionaries & Glossaries
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K56flex
A technology developed by Lucent Technologies and Rockwell International for delivering data rates up to 56 Kbps over plain old telephone service (POTS). It was long believed that the maximum data transmission rate over copper telephone wires was 33.6 Kbps, but K56flex achieves higher rates by taking advantage of the fact that most phone switching stations are connected by high-speed digital lines. K56flex bypasses the normal digital-to-analog conversion and sends the digital data over the telephone wires directly to your modem where it is decoded.
Lucent and Rockwell have announced that future K56flex modems will conform to the new V.90 standard approved by the ITU. And users with older K56flex modems may upgrade their modems to support V.90.
While K56flex offers faster Internet access than normal modems, there are several caveats to using an K56flex modem:
1. The high speeds are available only with downstream traffic (e.g., data sent to your computer). Upstream traffic is delivered using normal techniques, with a maximum speed of 33.6 Kbps.
2. To connect to the Internet at K56flex speeds, your Internet Service Provider (ISP) must have a modem at the other end that supports V.90.
3. Even if your ISP supports V.90, you might not achieve maximum transmission rates due to noisy lines.
A technology developed by Lucent Technologies and Rockwell International for delivering data rates up to 56 Kbps over plain old telephone service (POTS). It was long believed that the maximum data transmission rate over copper telephone wires was 33.6 Kbps, but K56flex achieves higher rates by taking advantage of the fact that most phone switching stations are connected by high-speed digital lines. K56flex bypasses the normal digital-to-analog conversion and sends the digital data over the telephone wires directly to your modem where it is decoded.
Lucent and Rockwell have announced that future K56flex modems will conform to the new V.90 standard approved by the ITU. And users with older K56flex modems may upgrade their modems to support V.90.
While K56flex offers faster Internet access than normal modems, there are several caveats to using an K56flex modem:
1. The high speeds are available only with downstream traffic (e.g., data sent to your computer). Upstream traffic is delivered using normal techniques, with a maximum speed of 33.6 Kbps.
2. To connect to the Internet at K56flex speeds, your Internet Service Provider (ISP) must have a modem at the other end that supports V.90.
3. Even if your ISP supports V.90, you might not achieve maximum transmission rates due to noisy lines.
K56flex Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
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k56flex
k56flex
a modem standard developed by rockwell for 56 kbps communications. k56flex became more popular than the rival x2 but will be superseded by the official v.90 standard.
k56flex
a modem standard developed by rockwell for 56 kbps communications. k56flex became more popular than the rival x2 but will be superseded by the official v.90 standard.
K56flex Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
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56k modem
56k modems are voiceband modems capable of download speeds near 56 kbit/s (7 KByte/s) when connecting to a service that has ISDN or other digital connection to the phone network. The upload speed is usually limited to 33.6 kbit/s though the late arriving V92 standard increased this to 48 kbit/s. Due to the design of public telecomunications networks higher speed dialup modems are unlikely to ever appear. 56K modems can only work at 56K when there is only a single conversion between analog and digital in the path between the modem and the digital equipment at the provider. When this is not the case or when two 56k modems are used to communicate with each other they will generally fall back to 33.6 kbit/s V32bis.
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