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MSS

MSS

1. Microsoft Speech Server.

Relative links:

www.microsoft.com/speech/default.mspx Microsoft Speech Home Page.

2. Maximum Segment Size. The maximum amount of data that a single (unfragemented) TCP message may contain. The MSS is the maximum data size, and does not include the size of the header.

The relationship between MSS and MTU is: MSS + header ≤ MTU.

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