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by bawolff 2175 days ago
What an unfortunate acronym
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AES? If so, the Audio Engineering Society has existed for a lot longer than the Advanced Encryption Standard.
Here are more details in case anyone is wondering.

The Audio Engineer Society has been around since 1948 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_Engineering_Society).

It released the AES/EBU standard (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AES3) for digital audio I/O in 1985, and AES/EBU is still used on some pro audio equipment. So in a digital audio context, "AES" is already familiar.

I work with both AES and AES, and I hadn't even noticed.
I thought it was related to encryption for VoLTE.