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>The digital telephone network is exclusively a switched (not packet-based) network, so you're guaranteed near-zero latency. Seems like this fact could be expl
by closeparen 7y ago
>The digital telephone network is exclusively a switched (not packet-based) network, so you're guaranteed near-zero latency.
Seems like this fact could be exploited more often in internet applications. High bandwidth channel for static assets, low latency channel for e.g. player movement data?
- bluesign 7y agoIt is already used with QoS [1] [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality_of_service https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality_of_service
- Piskvorrr 7y agoWhich is traffic prioritization on the same channel. Having an extra link for high-priority traffic would be...exotic...but workable, sure.
- numpad0 7y agoOne of the professors when I was in a university was from ex-national telco R&D, and he was very vocal about those “real” bandwidth/latency/privacy assured telecom techs, “far superior” than “toys” like TCP/IP. And that was for the sake of education. He’d hold his lab meetings in Skype, not over a multipoint ISDN video calls on circuit switched wireless ATM. Only when the show is on, speaking to us undergrads through the mic, he declined to admit that IP is more adopted. Circuit switched data looks pretty on paper, that’s true, but at the end of the day no one pays for or bother with it.
- closeparen 7y agoLow jitter is a luxury for the document web, but if approximately all human social interaction is going to be through digital video for the foreseeable future, we might start to care...