Information transmission system and method of data transmission

The invention is a data transmission medium and a method of data transmission. A data transmission system in accordance with the invention includes a plurality of modems; a transmission medium coupled to each of the modems with data transmissions between the modems being transmitted by the transmission medium with a data transmission protocol; a plurality of processors which use a common processor data protocol, each processor being coupled to one of the modems; a plurality of devices, each device receiving and/or transmitting data transmissions with a device data protocol and being coupled to a processor; and a plurality of digital devices, coupled to the transmission medium, which perform at least one of transmitting digital data to the transmission medium for transmission by the transmission medium to another digital device and receiving digital data from another digital device transmitted by the transmission medium.