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"fidelity" is a new one to me, what does that mean in the world of digital communications?
by chasd00 6y ago
"fidelity" is a new one to me, what does that mean in the world of digital communications?
- simcop2387 6y agoIn this case it'd likely be talking about corrupted, truncated, or otherwise mangled packets. So having to retransmit things. You'd still technically have the same bandwidth and latency on the connection itself even if it's causing all kinds of overhead on upper levels of the stack.
- dillonmckay 6y agoCould also be related to audio transmission, like bluetooth versus wired. Also, fiber can be analog, too.
- lotsofpulp 6y agoI just use the word as shorthand for “it just works in all aspects”.