isochronous communications

isochronous communications

[ī′sä·krə·nəs kə‚myü·nə′kā·shənz]
(communications)
Synchronization of a data communications network from timing signals provided by the network itself.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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What companies want today, Barbier says, is a more complete joining of asynchronous data traffic with isochronous communications: They want to be able to share data files, in real-time.
But where TDM is optimized for voice, packet networks are optimized for data, so voice and other isochronous communications must be squeezed in the pauses between data packets.
Merging voice and data

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