Most of us are familiar with a normal business or residential line from the
phone company. A normal phone line like this is delivered on a pair of copper wires that transmit your voice as an
analog signal. When you use a normal
modem on a line like this, it can transmit data at perhaps 30 kilobits per second (30,000 bits per second).
The phone company moves nearly all voice traffic as digital rather than analog signals. Your analog line gets converted to a digital signal by sampling it 8,000 times per second at 8-bit resolution (64,000 bits per second). Nearly all digital data now flows over
fiber optic lines, and the phone company uses different designations to talk about the capacity of a fiber optic line.
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