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communications protocol Last modified: Sunday, September 01, 1996
All communications between devices require that the devices agree on the format of the data. The set of rules defining a format is called a protocol. At the very least, a communications protocol must define the following: rate of transmission (in baud or bps) whether transmission is to be synchronous or asynchronous whether data is to be transmitted in half-duplex or full-duplex mode In addition, protocols can include sophisticated techniques for detecting and recovering from transmission errors and for encoding and decoding data. The table lists the most commonly used protocols for communications via modems. These protocols are almost always implemented in the hardware; that is, they are built into modems. In addition to the standard protocols listed in the table, there are a number of protocols that complement these standards by adding additional functions such as file transfer capability, error detection and recovery, and data compression. The best-known are Xmodem, Kermit, MNP, and CCITT V.42 . These protocols can be implemented either in hardware or software.		Related Categories Communications Standards Related Terms asynchronous Bell 103 Bell 212A bps CCITT communications Content Vectoring Protocol full-duplex half-duplex HDLC IDNX IPX NRZI protocol
Macintosh based networking products Home page of Team ASA. Contains information on their high speed network adapters and multi-topology communications protocol products. Serial communications protocol differences - technical note Describes and explains differences between some of the most used serial communications protocols such as I2C, ACCESS.bus, and SMBus.