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Ben Gilbert: commitment

15 Nov 2022 Acquired Qualcomm

“Then the next few milliseconds, someone else gets their digital packets. And we will keep round robining it between the 20 conversations that we're all having.”

— Ben Gilbert

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Ben Gilbert
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commitment
Recorded
15 Nov 2022
Publisher
Acquired
Episode
Qualcomm

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…And just rotate the time of when different packets are being sent. Right. The very crude example is if we're at a dinner party, I can have my conversation for 30 seconds in a room, and then I pause and I stop talking. A different conversation can happen for 30 seconds. Of course, that's too crude and that's far too long. In a time division network, what you'd basically do is say, I get some digital packets for these milliseconds, then the next milliseconds you get your digital packets. Then the next few milliseconds, someone else gets their digital packets. And we will keep round robining it between the 20 conversations that we're all having. When it gets reassembled on the other side by some other phone or something— Thanks to transistors and digital technology, this can all happen fast enough that you don't even notice.…

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