| Explanation & Hint:
Actually, voice traffic is typically the least tolerant to latency, jitter, and loss, because it is a real-time form of communication. Here’s an explanation for each type of traffic:
- Voice: Voice traffic is real-time and requires a consistent and timely delivery of packets to maintain a conversation’s flow. Latency must be kept low to avoid noticeable delays that can disrupt the natural flow of conversation. Jitter can cause voice packets to arrive out of sequence, leading to garbled audio. Loss is also problematic for voice because even small amounts of lost data can result in noticeable gaps or drops in audio.
- Video: Video streaming can tolerate a certain degree of latency and jitter, thanks to buffering. However, too much latency or jitter can lead to a degraded viewing experience, with issues such as buffering delays or reduced video quality. Loss of packets in video can result in pixelation or freezing of the image, but many streaming services use error correction to mitigate some of the problems caused by packet loss.
- Data: Non-real-time data traffic is the most tolerant of latency, jitter, and loss. Protocols like TCP can recover lost packets through retransmission and can handle packets arriving out of sequence by reordering them. This means that applications like web browsing, email, and file transfers can operate without noticeable effects from these network issues, as long as the delays are not excessively long.
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