AAL 1 (cont.)
When transmitting low & variable bit rate signals, the
problem with AAL 1 is even worse:
Packing delay may be even larger ...
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(8 kb/s speech encoding: 47/1000 = 47 ms)
... or transmission efficiency even lower
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=> use AAL 2 which offers multiplexing of different
signals into the same ATM cell