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traffic contract
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traffic contract

An agreement between a customer and network provider that stipulates a certain type of channel allotted to the customer. It may also guarantee a minimum amount of bandwidth as well as quality of service (QoS) parameters such as a guaranteed maximum delay between packets. Network outage may be part of the contract, which states the guaranteed uptime as well as compensation if the network is down beyond a certain length of time. See QoS.



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Multiple levels of QoS per subscriber -- IP Type of Service (ToS) and Diffserv support -- ATM traffic shaping into real-time variable bit rate (rtVBR), non real-time variable bit rate (nrtVBR), and unspecified bit rate (UBR) traffic classes -- Policy forwarding based on application -- Intelligent congestion management; and -- Patented IP CAC technology for voice applications.
Variable Bit Rate non-real-time, Variable Bit rate real-time, and Unspecified Bit rate services.
ATM supported services include Unspecified Bit Rate (
 
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