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QOS

In the fields of packet-switched networks and computer networking, the traffic engineering term Quality of Service (QoS, pronounced "Que-Oh-Es") refers to the probability of the telecommunication network meeting a given traffic contract, or in many cases is used informally to refer to the probability of a packet succeeding in passing between two points in the network./p>

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