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Quality Windows Audio/Video Experience (qWAVE)

Quality Windows Audio/Video Experience (qWAVE) is the next generation Quality of Service (QOS) platform introduced in Windows Vista.

qWAVE provides new features focused on streaming multimedia and real-time content over variable bandwidth networks. These features include the following.

Auto-discovery of end-to-end QOS compatibility.
End-to-end bandwidth estimation of maximum link capacity (bottleneck bandwidth) and real-time available bandwidth.
Intelligent packet prioritization.
Congestion notification.
Flow shaping.
Distributed admission control, including caching to improve performance and minimize latency.

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Build date: 10/26/2012

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