V.32 - technical definition

The ITU-T Recommendation for full-duplex (FDX) asynchronous dial-up modems operating over the public switched telephone network (PSTN) at transmission rates up to 9600 bps, with the capability to fall back to 4800 bps, over a 4-kHz analog voice grade channel. See also analog, asynchronous, channel, FDX, modem, PSTN, transmission rate, and voice grade.