He says the phone system was designed to handle only fairly brief conversations. It was based on the fact that typical calls would be for four or five minutes for voice, and that there would be so many calls a day. So we could take advantage of concentration, assuming that not everybody would pick up the telephone at the same time and make a call. But Internet telephone calls can often last for hours. Sometimes they can t even get a dial tone.
Servers are computers that handle lots of calls simultaneously.
Tim Jackson runs a large ISP in Massachusetts called TEAC, the Internet access company. Well, the experiences that we ve been having with the growth in the industry has been phenomenal. It s been about 8 percent per month. Per month, yes. At first, it s very difficult, and you sort of get into the swing of things and to be able to learn how to do things at that kind of high speed, but after a while, you become acclimated to it.