In telecommunication, a buffer is a routine or storage medium used in telecommunications to compensate for a difference in rate of flow of data, or time of occurrence of events, when transferring data from one device to another. BlackBerry 7100t Telecommunication refers to the communication of information at a distance. ... A routine can be any activity that recurs. ... Storage is the at least semi-permanent holding of an amount of something. ... A recording medium is a physical material that holds information expressed in any of the existing recording formats. ... Data is the plural of datum. ... In forensic investigation, the time of occurrence of an event (such as time of death, time of incident) is one of the most important things to determine accurately as soon as possible. ...

Buffers are used for many purposes, such as (a) interconnecting two digital circuits operating at different rates, (b) holding data for use at a later time, (c) allowing timing corrections to be made on a data stream, (d) collecting binary data bits into groups that can then be operated on as a unit, (e) delaying the transit time of a signal in order to allow other operations to occur. A digital system is one that uses numbers, especially binary numbers, for input, processing, transmission, storage, or display, rather than a continuous spectrum of values (an analog system) or non-numeric symbols such as letters or icons. ... In telecommunications, a data stream is a sequence of digitally encoded signals used to represent information in transmission. ... The binary numeral system (base 2 numerals) represents numeric values using two symbols, typically 0 and 1. ... In telecommunication, signalling (or signaling) has the following meanings: The use of signals for controlling communications. ...

See also

• Variable length buffer
• Dejitterizer