Well I think now you lose the relation to the discussion. I don't think
anybody'd say people should talk digital (I know that's not what you =
meant,
but now I do the same to your argument what you did to the other's). =
We're
talking about how 2 fully digital units talk together and there the =
answer
has to be: digital is better than analogue. The digital transmission is =
(of
course) optimized for digital transmissions, analogue ways are not. And =
in
the end, you transfer a digital signal - and you can do this better on
digital ways than on analogues.
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-----Urspr=FCngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Ruben van der Leij [mailto:ruben@vuurwerk.nl]
Gesendet am: Samstag, 27. M=E4rz 1999 13:17
An: pkormann@intern.datacomm.ch
Betreff: Re: (PM) pm3 disconnects
On Fri, 26 Mar 1999, Richard Morrell wrote:
> > Why would you not need error correction [on ISDN]?=20
>=20
> Three reasons:
>=20
> 3) ISDN is a fully digital service and is therefore not very prone to
> errors (compared with analogue systems).
pet peeve warning:
I disagree. Speech is the most analogue system of all. You can remove =
99% of
speech and still have enough left for communications. But can you point
out thte error-correction mechanisms underlying speech? Anyone who've =
heard
what
ham's can stand for speech degradation will know what I mean. On the =
other
hand
there are plenty digital systems where a single bit-error will mean
catastrophic
failure.=20
I'm not exactly pleased with the current 'digital is better'-tantrum.
It's the implementation, not the technology that defines robustness.
---Ruben
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