By

Electronics and telecommunication

Purushottam Institute of Engg. And Tech.
 Modem (from modulator-demodulator) is
a device that modulates an analog carrier
signal to encode digital information, and also
demodulates such a carrier signal to decode
the transmitted information.

The goal is to produce a signal that can be

transmitted easily and decoded to reproduce
the original digital data.
Voice band Modems
Softmodem (dumb modem)
ADSL Modems
DSL Modems
Cable Modems
Optical Modems
A voiceband modem that turns the digital
1s and 0s of a personal computer into
sounds that can be transmitted over the
telephone lines of Plain Old Telephone
Systems (POTS), and once received on
the other side, converts those 1s and 0s
back into a form used by a USB, Ethernet,
serial, or network connection.
Winmodem or Softmodem is a stripped-
down modem that replaces tasks
traditionally handled in hardware with
software.
In this case the modem is a simple digital
signal processor designed to create
sounds, or voltage variations, on the
telephone line.
Softmodems are cheaper than traditional
modems, since they have fewer hardware
components.
Broadband modems should still be classed
as modems, since they use complex
waveforms to carry digital data.
 They are more advanced devices than
traditional dial-up modems as they are
capable of modulating/demodulating
hundreds of channels simultaneously.
Many broadband modems include the
functions of a router (with Ethernet and
WiFi ports) and other features such as
DHCP, NAT and firewall features.
DSL originally stood for digital
subscriber loop, although in recent
years, the term digital subscriber line
has been widely adopted as a more
marketing-friendly term for ADSL, which is
the most popular version of consumer-
ready DSL.
 DSL uses high frequency, while
regular telephone uses low frequency on
the same telephone line.
 Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
(ADSL) is a form of DSL, a data
communications technology that enables
faster data transmission over copper
telephone lines than a conventional
voiceband modem can provide.
 It does this by utilizing frequencies that are
not used by a voice telephone call.
 A splitter - or microfilter - allows a single
telephone connection to be used for both
ADSL service and voice calls at the same
time.
A cable modem is a type of modem that
provides access to a data signal sent over the
cable television infrastructure.
 Cable modems are primarily used to deliver
broadband Internet access in the form of
cable internet, taking advantage of the high
bandwidth of a cable television network.
 Multiple cable modems attached to a single cable
can use the same frequency band, using a low-
level media access protocol to allow them to work
together within the same channel.
 Typically, 'up' and 'down' signals are kept
separate using frequency division multiple access
.
Optical modems transmit data over
optical fibers.
Most intercontinental data links now use
optical modems transmitting over
undersea optical fibers.
Optical modems routinely have data rates
in excess of a billion (1x109) bits per
second.
 Modems are the devices ,those are
used in the field of communication to
Modulate and Demodulate (As the
name itself suggests) signals so as to
be transmitted over a communication
channel.
Questions ?