Computer Science
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Modem stands for MOdulator DEModulator. It is a computer peripheral that connects a workstation to other work-stations via telephone lines and facilitates communications. It converts digital signals to audio frequency tones which are in the frequency range that the telephone lines can transmit and it can also convert transmitted tones back to digital information.
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