ITU V.44 Standard Adopted

The ITU has officially adopted the v.44 standard, which is starting to ship in mid-2001 on modems supporting the v.92 standard. V.44 uses a compression algorithm known as LZJH, which was invented by Jeff Heath and is owned by Hughes Network Systems. According to Jeff, ITU testing showed that V.44 was 20% to 60% better than V.42bis on
typical internet web downloads.