0 used to describe computer data that is sent in short, sudden periods of activity:
There is a new international standard for handling high-speed, bursty data over wide area networks.
In the latter case, these higher frequency components can be effectively relayed to the cortex by bursty firing.
A good example would be personal and possessive pronouns all of which are quite bursty.
The first class are much more bursty than the binomial would predict.
Not all relay cells with low maintained discharges had bursty spike trains, though.
For example, the traditional telephone network is too noisy and inefficient for bursty data communication.
Deep space communications are limited by the thermal noise of the receiver which is more of a continuous nature than a bursty nature.
The main reason for doing this is to insulate the information bits from bursty noise.
However, with self-similar data, one is confronted with traces which are spiky and bursty, even at large scales.