Purple minutes in internet communications refers to IP network traffic that has a value-added component, e.g. voice, video etc. Coined by Voice over IP evangelist Jeff Pulver.
Compare to standard telephony traffic which is termed black and white minutes.
Famous quotes containing the words purple and/or minutes:
“O’er her warm cheek and rising bosom move
The bloom of young desire and purple light of love.”
—Thomas Gray (1716–1771)
“We may say that feelings have two kinds of intensity. One is the intensity of the feeling itself, by which loud sounds are distinguished from faint ones, luminous colors from dark ones, highly chromatic colors from almost neutral tints, etc. The other is the intensity of consciousness that lays hold of the feeling, which makes the ticking of a watch actually heard infinitely more vivid than a cannon shot remembered to have been heard a few minutes ago.”
—Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914)