Gentlemen! Henry, Jim, Frank, Thank you!!! Combination of those responses was truly enlightning! Frank, yes, you are one of us... You inherit the Torontonian status for being one of us and having your son in this part of the border :). Andrew, thanks a 2^10 terra bytes for going above and beyond with the explanation.
The explanations were wonderful, well written to the point anyone could understand. Yes, this was the extreme low level answer that I was seeking - and as usual, with answered questions, raises MORE questions ;). So I guess, technically this "timing device" could have been reworded as a "synchronization device", where the voice packets are properly synchronized in a MeetMe/MoH function where dancing in rythm with the correct beat and correct number of step is in harmony with the rest of the dancers? But the primary difference here is the dancers are clients transmitting voice packets, and the number of steps is 1000 per second (boy, would that be a hard salsa move per second). So does the cheap clone X100p/x101p I have in 3 of my * boxes, provide ENOUGH synchronizing capability for lets say - practically speaking 30 clients in MeetMe, and theoritically speaking 100 clients in MeetMe? I have two boxes at two data centres with access to 10mpbs backbone... and giving a lot of thought in teleconferencing services area, where each prospect/client has the potential to have about 6 - 10 people calling from different geographic locations in Canada & the US. Just another information about my boxes... none of them are connected physically to a PSTN line. ALL DIDS & voice packets arrive from several VOIP carriers/servers. No transcoding happens on my boxes. No call recording. No other services. Just pure VOIP. My co-located boxes are single CPU, P4 2.0 with 1 gig ram. I owe all you gentlemen a beer! Jim, I guess you are banking on beer eh? Now you have 2 beers on me! Frank... you must come to Toronto more often... Canadian beer is better :). Americans flocking to Canada on the weekends is proof enough! Cheers & thanks again to everyone! Best, Reza.
