[Alan Anderson]

If the communication is being lost briefly on a consistent time schedule, check for something like an Autodesk update task running on the controlling computer. Some programs like to install "helpful" background services that try to contact an internet server for new software every so often, and which freeze the networking for a few seconds when they can't find it.

This answer assumes that the app you're talking about is running on a computer. I don't know the current state of FTC, so I might be completely off-base.