digital facsimile equipment

Facsimile equipment that digitally encodes the picture signal, i.e., encodes the baseband signal resulting from scanning the object. Note: The facsimile equipment output may be either (a) analog, as defined by CCITT Group 3 protocol, or (b) digital, as defined by CCITT Group 4, STANAG 5000 Type I, and STANAG 5000 Type II protocols.