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Carrier Detect Threshold
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Carrier Detect Threshold (Telecommunications) 
A way of measuring how well a modem can detect valid data over noisy phone lines. It is measured in negative dBm's (decibel-milliwatts). The bigger the number (the more negative) the better. For example,45 dBm is better than40 dBm.
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