Terms used throughout the NocTel universeCommunications websites and documentation.
Codec
"Codec" is a technical name for "compression/decompression". It also stands for "compressor/decompressor" and "code/decode". All of these variations mean the same thing: a codec is a computer program that both shrinks large data, and makes it smaller to transport across the Internet. To help speed up transport of audio, mathematical "codecs" were built to encode ("shrink") a signal for transmission and then decode it for listening. Without codecs, downloads would take longer or consume more bandwidth than the original version. With today's high bandwidth connections, codecs are not as important as they once were not so many years ago.
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