0 a process, such as that used by email, that allows data to be stored until it can be sent if there is no connection available immediately:
store-and-forward technology
This reduces latency (delay) noticeably compared to store-and-forward switching that waits for the whole packet before forwarding.
Cell phone text messages may go through even when there appears to be no signal, in part because text messaging is a store-and-forward service.
Today's email systems are based on a store-and-forward model.
Instead, they operate in a store-and-forward manner, by receiving and then retransmitting on the same frequency after a short delay.
With hop-by-hop transport, chunks of data are forwarded from node to node in a store-and-forward manner.
The satellite had one radio channel for digital store-and-forward communications.
Echomail was not the only system to use the file attachment feature of netmail to implement store-and-forward capabilities.
In many specialties, such as dermatology, radiology and pathology, an immediate response is not critical, making these specialties conducive to store-and-forward technologies.
