If you didn't get the link to the DMT biased whitepaper I posted which has
probably the best answers I've seen to your question, it's

http://support.aware.com/technology/whitepapers/dmt.html

Cheers,
Phil M


On or about 1 Jun 2001, Munir Nassar is alleged to have said:
> is one better or faster than the other? why would they
> switch? what are the pros and cons of each?
> 
>  -munir
> --- Phil Mendelsohn <mend0070 at tc.umn.edu> wrote:
> > On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Joshua Jore wrote:
> > 
> > > So, being a naive DSL user, what the heck is CAP
> > and DMT and if my modem
> > > doesn't do those yet why should it?
> > 
> > Your modem does one of the two.  They are two of the
> > encoding formats for
> > DSL.  Think of AM/FM, or better the two incompatible
> > formats that were
> > in use for 56K (still are?) a couple of years ago.
> > 
> > CAP is Carrierless Amplitude/Phase modulation, and
> > DMT is discrete
> > multi-tone.  It's the physical layer.  If it works,
> > don't worry about it
> > -- but you might look at which you're using.
> > 
> > -- 
> > "To misattribute a quote is unforgivable."
> > --Anonymous
> > 
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