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It took over two decades for things to settle. The telco people had ATM and Frame Relay and DSL voice and a Bell Labs thing called Datakit. They were trying to
by Animats 1y ago
It took over two decades for things to settle. The telco people had ATM and Frame Relay and DSL voice and a Bell Labs thing called Datakit. They were trying to get deterministic voice, so voice over packets wouldn't suck. What we ended up with is voice with lag, jitter, echo, dropout, and over-compression. So nobody talks on the phone much now.
- kstrauser 1y agoGive a fellow a little warning before conjuring those names! When it became clear that packet switching was going to win out, did the telcos ever try to emulate circuits with UDP flows or similar? It seems like IP over switched circuits would look a lot like virtual switched circuits over IP, if you squint just right.