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How is internet traffic meaningfully different from phone network traffic? It's all signals carrying data over transmission cables...

• ppf 8y ago
  Where to begin? Phone traffic is circuit-switched, internet traffic is packet-switched. This is a fundamental difference in network topology. The phone network carries only one type of data - audio - encoded in one particular way.
• sudoke 8y ago
  First look up analog and digital. Then look up bandwidth and latency.