| 释义 |
cost 1. The amount of money paid to acquire something, or spent in producing something. 2. The amount of time, effort, or other resources expended in accomplishing something. 3. In telecommunications, the cost of transmitting data along a given path or route can be measured in terms of bandwidth consumption and quality of service (QoS) parameters such as number of hops, total latency, bit error rate (BER), and packet loss, or any number of considerations other than the direct monetary cost of passing traffic to another carrier or service provider. See also bandwidth, BER, carrier, hop, latency, path, packet, QoS, route, and traffic. |