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lost packet

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A packet of data that never reaches its destination. For example, if the network becomes congested and the traffic exceeds the momentary holding capacity (buffer space) of the router, packets will be lost.



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Since Class 3 service relies on the application to recover from a lost packet, the result to users' data may be catastrophic.
ToughStream "makes streams tough," protecting video and audio streams from common impairments including packet loss, latency and jitter and lost packets typical of IP networks, allowing reliable and efficient delivery to the end-user without interruptions.
The protocol has packet out of sequence detection and re-sequencing, duplicate skipping, and real time lost packet retransmission with configured delay.
 
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