Continuous transmission mode
{{Short description|Telecommunications signal mode}}
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Continuous transmission mode{{Cite book |last=Shafik |first=M. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qubGEAAAQBAJ |title=Advances in Intelligent Traffic and Transportation Systems: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Intelligent Traffic and Transportation (ICITT) |date=2023-04-25 |publisher=IOS Press |others=Incorporating the 6th International Conference on Communication and Network Technology (ICCNT) |isbn=978-1-64368-385-0 |location=Paris |page=48 |language=en |quote=The continuous transmission mode is supported, that is, the full channel continuous transmission is realized by reading the pre-prepared form file... |orig-date=25-27 September 2022}} is a telecommunications mode where a good part of the communication transmission links are of the continuous-mode type, in which the signal is present at all times.{{Cite book |last1=Kazovsky |first1=Leonid G. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dZo3vorVgdUC |title=Broadband Optical Access Networks |last2=Cheng |first2=Ning |last3=Shaw |first3=Wei-Tao |last4=Gutierrez |first4=David |last5=Wong |first5=Shing-Wa |date=2011-04-20 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |isbn=978-0-470-92267-5 |page=(Unpaginated) |language=en |quote=Comparison of continuous-mode transmission and burst-mode transmission. In continuous mode transmission, continuous bit streams are sent from sources to destinations; if no data need to be sent, idle signals are sent.}}
In more quantitative terms, continuous transmission mode takes place:
- at constant bit rate,
- when the communication channel is active for times much longer than both:
- the time needed to set up the channel itself, and/or
- the time needed to transmit any file or record or any other sequence of information bearing bits.