Abstract
Modems (MOdulator/DEModulator) connect digital equipment to a telephone line. It connects digital equipment to a speech bandwidth-limited communications channel. Typically, modems 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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Buchanan, B. (1999). Modems. In: Handbook of Data Communications and Networks. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-0905-6_46
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