Type of Application

Requirements

Information

Text Messaging

<1 Kbits/s

Non-connected and tolerate high latency

Email

1 to 100 Kbits/s

Non-connected and tolerate latency

Web Browsing

50 to 100 Kbits/s

Not connected and tolerate latency

Audio Streaming

96 to 160 Kbits/s

Connected constant amount of relatively large bandwidth

Voice over IP

24 to 100 Kbits/s

Connected constant amount of bandwidth

Video Streaming

64 to 200 Kbits/s

Connected high throughput and low latency

Peer to Peer

0 to max throughput

Tolerate any amount of latency, but tend to use up all available throughput