greatbam
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And in a lot of cases cases the speed of sound traveling on the back of electricity traveling down a copper wire.
Feb 18, 2023 7:10 PM
greatbam
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And in a lot of cases cases the speed of sound traveling on the back of electricity traveling down a copper wire.
DrewThe3DPrinterGuy
They technically don't! VOIP and digital packet switching are noticeably laggy compared to a POTS telephone. It's just within what we accept
GinAndTonicAllTheWay
It's magic!
ReaperNo1
In the next section you would have read how a voice packet skips most of that stuff because a small amount of lost data is barely noticeable
d0o0o0d
....phone companies are some of the biggest purchasers of very expensive high-performance networking hardware.
dabrick31
This is also a big part of the reason why many older alarm systems don’t work on modern phone infrastructure
Alurkerforcedtologin
Real time voice calls take a shortcut. They use a lightweight protocol without error correction and without guaranteed delivery.
Alurkerforcedtologin
It's a connectionless, stateless protocol that just fire hoses packets and hopes for the best, then error concealment algorithms make it
Alurkerforcedtologin
Sound less terrible when there's packet loss.