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From: sp@questor.wimsey.bc.ca (Steve Pershing)
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Subject: Re: TASI Acronym?
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Date: 5 Sep 90 02:52:22 GMT
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TASI was (I think) invented by Bell Labs at least 15 years ago.  It
stands for Time Assignment Speech Interpolation.  The original purpose
was to provide more voice circuits on overseas cables.  Since the
actual time that a voice is really speaking is rather small, the
original TASI allowed for somewhere around a 5:1 increase in
conversations.

 
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