Differences Between Old (telephony) and New Services
Conventional telephony communicates using:
- the voice medium only,
- connects only two telephones per telephone call, and
- uses circuits of fixed bit-rates.
Modern communication services differ in three essential aspects. Modern services can be:
- Multimedia,
- multi-point, and
- multi-rate.
These aspects are examined individually in the following three sub-sections .
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