Line coding technique for efficient transmission and delineation of encapsulated frames over high speed data links

According to the invention there is provided a method of signal coding that permits high speed data transmission over multiple pairs of UTP-5 cable from a transmission end to a receiving end which includes, at the transmission end, separating an incoming frame of data into a plurality of byte streams with a predefined sequence of bytes assigned to each of the streams, encoding every 2 bits of data in each stream into one of 4 logical voltage levels forming a symbol or quat thereby reducing the symbol or baud rate by 50% and inserting an escape sequence into one or more of the streams consisting of a sequence of zero's followed by a control code to indicate a transition from one state to another. At a receiving end, the method further includes reading the escape sequence and decoding the signals in accordance with the code contained in the escape sequence.