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RMX 2000 Administrator's Guide - Polycom Support

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Chapter 2-Additional Conferencing Information<br />

LPR – Lost Packet Recovery<br />

Packet Loss<br />

Lost Packet Recovery<br />

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Lost Packet Recovery (LPR) and Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation (DBA) help<br />

minimize media quality degradation that can result from packet loss in<br />

the network.<br />

Packet Loss refers to the failure of data packets, transmitted over an IP<br />

network, to arrive at their destination. Packet Loss is described as a<br />

percentage of the total packets transmitted.<br />

Causes of Packet Loss<br />

Network congestion within a LAN or WAN, faulty or incorrectly<br />

configured network equipment or faulty cabling are among the many<br />

causes of Packet Loss.<br />

Effects of Packet Loss on Conferences<br />

Packet Loss affects the quality of:<br />

• Video – frozen images, decreased frame rate, flickering, tiling,<br />

distortion, smearing, loss of lip sync<br />

• Audio – drop-outs, chirping, audio distortion<br />

• Content – frozen images, blurring, distortion, slow screen refresh rate<br />

The Lost Packet Recovery (LPR) algorithm uses Forward Error Correction<br />

(FEC) to create additional packets that contain recovery information.<br />

These additional packets are used to reconstruct packets that are lost, for<br />

whatever reason, during transmission. Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation<br />

(DBA) is used to allocate the bandwidth needed to transmit the additional<br />

packets.

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