Google is building a subsea cable that will provide a digita…
Google is building a subsea cable that will provide a digital connection that links the US to Australia. Google says that the goal of the investment is to, “improve reliability, add capacity, and reduce latency for users in the Pacific Islands and around the world.” What type of cable would you expect Google to use in this application?
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Consider the following characteristics of digital audio when answering the following question: Digital representations of voice audio have some redundancy, and Listeners can often use context to guess what a speaker is saying even if some of the speaker’s message is not heard. For example, upon hearing “H___, Alice, this is Bob,” Alice is likely to guess that the first word was “Hi” or “Hello.” Would lossy compression be an acceptable technique to use given these characteristics of digital audio? If so, how would its performance compare to that of lossless compression?
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