Purple Minutes

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:

    They turn’d to rest; and, each clasp’d by an arm,
    Yielded to the deep twilight’s purple charm.
    George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    He in a few minutes ravished this fair creature, or at least would have ravished her, if she had not, by a timely compliance, prevented him.
    Henry Fielding (1707–1754)