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(Source: Business Continuity Management Institute - BCM Institute)

2. In a communications sense, the ability to transmit each character as a self-contained unit of information, without additional timing information. This method of transmitting data is sometimes called start/stop. Synchronous working involves the use of timing information to allow transmission of data, which is normally done in blocks. Synchronous transmission is usually more efficient than the asynchronous method.

(Source: OGC, Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) v3)