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More about Bandwidth Management and Prioritization
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More about Bandwidth Management and Prioritization
Integrated bandwidth management ensures high speech quality for
telephone calls over the Internet with the FRITZ!Box.
The FRITZ!Box offers a prioritization function that can be used to divide
network applications and network devices into three different catego-
ries. The category assigned determines whether an application or de-
vice is treated with more or less priority when it accesses the Internet.
6.1
Bandwidth Management
6.2
The Prioritization of Network Applications and Network Devices
The FRITZ!Box is equipped with integrated bandwidth
management. This function ensures that the speech quali-
ty during telephone calls over the Internet is not reduced
by surfing activity. To do this, the FRITZ!Box adjusts all up-
loads and downloads to the currently available band-
width. Because the FRITZ!Box also places a higher priority
on Internet telephony connections over Internet data con-
nections, unwelcome interference is largely avoided. Just
as for any other analog call, once Internet telephony trans-
mission capacity has been reached, remote partners hear
a busy signal.
Prioritization is a function you can use to specify that net-
work applications and network devices are treated with
higher or lower priority when they access the Internet con-
nection. For example, you may wish to ensure that appli-
cations like Internet telephony, IPTV and video on demand
are always treated with higher priority than other applica-
tions. You can also specify that file-sharing applications
like eMule and BitTorrent always have to wait behind on-
line games.
The following methods are used in the FRITZ!Box to send
data packets according to their prioritization:
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