Traffic Shaping - ActionTec MI424-WR User Manual

Traffic Shaping

Traffic Shaping is the solution for managing and avoiding congestion where the
meets limited broadband bandwidth. Typical networks use a 100 Mbps
network
Ethernet with a 100 Mbps
LAN
necks occur
A traffic shaper is essentially a regulated queue that accepts uneven and/or bursty
flows of packets and transmits them in a steady, predictable stream so that the net-
work is not overwhelmed with traffic. While traffic priority allows basic prioritiza-
tion of packets, traffic shaping provides more sophisticated definitions, such as:
• Bandwidth limit for each device
• Bandwidth limit for classes of rules
• Prioritization policy
• serialization on a device
TCP
Additionally, o
Q S
rules will be used on a device that has no definitions of its own. This enables the
definition of o rules on the default
Q S
even if the or bridge device over the
PPP
Device Traffic Shaping
This section describes the different Traffic Shaping screens and terms, and presents
the feature's configuration logic.
1. Click Quality of Service at the top of the Home screen, then click Traffic
Shaping. The following screen appears.
Appendix A Quality of Service
WAN
traffic shaping rules can be defined for a default device. These
interface router. This is where most bottle-
, for example, and their maintenance
WAN
is removed.
WAN
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