I think this applies to communication in large teams in general. There is an amount of shared state that is quite difficult to keep syncronised among different

I think this applies to communication in large teams in general. There is an amount of shared state that is quite difficult to keep syncronised among different teams. So each team maintains their own version of reality and trys to synchronise it at a particular interval. And a meeting is just one method of syncing. People realise that the communication overhead is getting out of hand so require longer periods between synchronisation. But this lead to even more discontinuity.