Multitech V.90/K56FLEX MT5600ZDXV - Manual (Page 8)

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Models MT5600ZDX & ZDXV
Introduction
Welcome to the world of data communications. You have acquired one of
the finest intelligent data/fax modems available today, the MultiModem
ZDX or ZDXV, from Multi-Tech Systems. This Owner’s Manual will help you
install, configure, test and use your modem.
Product Description
Your modem incorporates new modem technologies called V.90 and
K56flex TM , that enable Internet connections at data rates up to 56K bps over
standard telephone lines. This 56K technology is able to propel data
downstream from the Internet to your computer at speeds of up to 56K bps
because data is digitally encoded instead of modulated. Upstream transmis-
sion, mostly keystroke and mouse commands from your computer to the
central site, continue to flow at the conventional data rate of 33.6K bps.
Your modem offers interactive automatic dialing, as well as command mode
option configuration. You may store four command line/telephone numbers,
of up to 40 characters each, in the modem’s nonvolatile memory. The modem
pulse or tone dials, and recognizes dial tones and busy signals for reliable call-
progress detection. The modem can detect AT&T calling card tones.
It is FCC-registered for connection to telephone networks without any Data
Access Arrangements (DAA’s).
Although this modem is capable of 56K bps download performance, limitations
caused by line impairments, public telephone infrastructure, and other external
technological factors currently prevent maximum 56K bps connections.
This is a desktop fax/modem for compatible IBM Personal Computers; and
provides dial-up asynchronous communication capability with other personal
computers, terminals, on-line computer services or other types of computer
systems.
Connection to the phone line and/or an attached telephone device is made
by RJ11 modular type connectors; the PC connection is made via an
RS232C/V.24 serial cable receptacle; and low voltage DC power is supplied
to the modem through a modular power supply connection shipped with it.
All these connections are located on the rear of the modem. Hardware
installation procedures are described in Chapter 2.