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- adjective computing of a
communications system in which thesource andtarget are eachsynchronized but eachtransmission contains a start bit and a stop bit
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It was initially started to commercialize a technology called isosynchronous Ethernet, which carries voice calls using a special signaling method much the same way ISDN-based phone systems operated.
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The technical details aren't so important now, as isosynchronous Ethernet is obsolete, but the idea of interleaving voice and data on a common wire was, for it led to the development of the first commercially useful VoIP product, the Internet PhoneJACK.
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That said, I'm not sure how isosynchronous ethernet, which was a Layer 2 effort requiring proprietary switches and transceivers and which obscured the value of Ethernet (generic common-class hardware and software) has anything to do with VoIP, which is a Layer 5+ effort implemented in software and preserving the value of Ethernet.
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