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Elastic traffic: -adjust its throughput between end hosts in response to network condition.

- Generally TCP-based application (HTTP,STMP,FTP)

- Principle form of feedback: packet loss caused by network load/congestion, causing TCP to implements its congestion avoidance algorithm and reduce the rate at which packets are sent over the network

-TCP traffic is considered to be "network friendly"

Inelastic traffic: - does not adjust its throughput in response to network conditions

- generally real-time multimedia (audio streaming, video,VoIP)

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