Extra Credit How it Works

It seems that the way that voice over ip technology works is in a way that makes the very problem I had with it necessary. When your voice is recorded to the computer it must first be converted from analog (basically physical sound waves) into digital (computer representations of those sound waves) and then put into packets of digital information that is sent over the network. This creates a necessary delay in the process. Other parts that factor into this are that when information is downloaded off the internet it is in packets that sometimes spike and dip in size. With voice information the size stays the same, that means that the computer can predict exactly how much bandwith is going to be needed at any given time. Meaning a dedicated bit of this bandwith can be set aside making the process faster. If the technology can manage the conversion process and sending process instantaneously then that delay I hate may be fixed and who knows, this may be a big technology yet.