best effort

best effort definition - telecom
A quality-of-service (QoS) level that provides no guarantees in terms of metrics such as error performance, latency, and even loss. Best effort is the lowest QoS level. See also best-effort ATM.

Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary Copyright © 2008 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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