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 turnd to rest; and, each claspd by an arm,
Yielded to the deep twilights purple charm.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (17881824)
“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 (17071754)