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Cleveland Medical Devices Inc. 
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GLOSSARY
 
 
ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Inter-exchange) 
A standard character set and coding scheme used to represent letters, numbers, symbols, 
and control characters. 
 
Analog 
A continuous sound wave or signal, such as a voice, that conventional telephone lines 
were developed for. 
 
Bandwidth 
The required capacity for the data volume and transmission rate. 
 
Baud Rate 
The number of signal elements per second occurring on a communications channel.  Since 
a signal element can represent more than one bit, baud rate is not necessarily the same as 
bits per second. 
 
BPS
 
The number of bits that are transmitted in one second.  This is the basic unit of measure 
for serial data transmission. 
 
Digital 
A non-continuous signal, voltages representing either an on or off condition used to repre-
sent 1 data bit.
 
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