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