Facetime incoming audio fails after 50 minute conversation... why?

Not only Facetime, but Skype will loose incoming audio if the conversation exceeds 50 minutes (approximately).  Outgoing audio and  video in / out aren't affected.  The 'fix' is to restart the app.  This happens 100% of the time.  The failure is always the same... incoming audio becomes progressively more choppy until it is unintelligible  The progression from perfect audio to unintelligible audio take about 30 seconds.   Audio I/O is via USB using a 'Focusrite Scarlett 2i2' audio interface, but have had the same problem with a Behringer and an Edirol USB interface. Any idea what might be going wrong?

I have a similar problem with FT audio, except that in my case the problem seems localized to an iPad 3G that has problems SENDING  audio to an iPad 2G.
We switched to FT a couple of months ago because of poor quality when using Skype, and FT was noticeably better for the first few calls. However, we have now started getting loss of audio from the iPad 3G after 5-10 min. In one case, the audio returned for 5-10 sec., but then never came back.
We now switch to Skype when this problem occurs; the quality is not so good, but the audio does not drop out.
The owner of the iPad 3G has had similar problems in other FT calls.
Does anyone have any ideas as to why this might happen? Could marginal upload bandwidth at the IPad 3G end cause this? (It seems unlikely; I would expect FT to shed video before audio so that the users could still communicate effectively.)

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