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
But this also seriously diluted the entire purpose of the store-and-forward model, which had been built up specifically to avoid a long distance problem that no longer existed.
Today, this descriptive phrase is used industry wide to encompass instant messaging, web conferencing, and other real-time communications applications to distinguish them from store-and-forward applications such as email.
The sum of store-and-forward delay that a packet experiences in each router gives the transfer or queuing delay of that packet across the network.
In many specialties, such as dermatology, radiology and pathology, an immediate response is not critical, making these specialties conducive to store-and-forward technologies.
Echomail was not the only system to use the file attachment feature of netmail to implement store-and-forward capabilities.
The satellite had one radio channel for digital store-and-forward communications.
With hop-by-hop transport, chunks of data are forwarded from node to node in a store-and-forward manner.
Instead, they operate in a store-and-forward manner, by receiving and then retransmitting on the same frequency after a short delay.
