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Network - Protocol, Data-Compression

In telecommunications, a data-compression protocol is any of several schemes used to compress data before transmission. These differ from data-compression programs in that the compression at the sending end and the decompression at the receiving end are automatic and completely transparent to the user. In fact, users may not even know the data is being compressed. Two commonly used compression schemes are the CCITT's V.42bis, which supports transmission rates of up to 38,400 bits per second (bps), and Microcom's MNP 5, which supports rates up to 19,200 bps.