POTS

2004/06/15 POTS

Plain Old Telephone Service. This acronym has been in use for quite a while, almost before there really was much else other than plain old telephone service. POTS is circuit based, and of course the newer concept is packets.

Soon enough, POTS will disappear from most of the world, and just about every phone system will be packet based. What happens to the VOIP acronym then?

Got something to add? Send me email.

(OLDER) <- More Stuff -> (NEWER) (NEWEST)

Printer Friendly Version

Home

Misc. Words

-> POTS

1 comment

Increase ad revenue 50-250% with Ezoic

Inexpensive and informative Apple related e-books:

Take control of Apple TV, Second Edition

Take Control of iCloud, Fifth Edition

Take Control of Preview

Take Control of Upgrading to Yosemite

Take Control of OS X Server

More Articles by Tony Lawrence

Find me on Google+

© 2011-07-04 Tony Lawrence

"What happens to the VOIP acronym then?"

Simple: it becomes PSTS (packet switched telephone service), which could be pronounced as "pissed." <Smile>

Incidentally, the use of packets to transport telephone conversations is hardly new. The concept was originally devised in the 1950's to increase the number of simultaneous conversations that could be carried on undersea phone cables. The theory was that a substantial amount of the time that a phone circuit was connected was "wasted," in that no one was actually talking. It dawned on someone that multiple conversations could be carried on a single circuit simply by giving each conversation some fraction of the real time connection -- timeslicing, as it were. To do that, bursts of speech from one converstion were transmitted, then bursts from another, and so forth. On average, the callers had no idea that they only had use of the circuit for part of the time.

--BigDumbDinosaur

------------------------

Printer Friendly Version

Have you tried Searching this site?

Support Rates

This is a Unix/Linux resource website. It contains technical articles about Unix, Linux and general computing related subjects, opinion, news, help files, how-to's, tutorials and more.

Printer Friendly Version