Technical Details - Traffic Shaping

Item

Description

Bandwidth Reservation

Reserve bandwidth for traffic with guaranteed minimum and maximum throughput. These reservations are known as ‘pipes'

Burst Control

Configure burst allocation for a particular ‘pipe' so that it does not flood a WAN link

Dynamic re-allocation

Ability to borrow bandwidth from a pipe that currently has no traffic utilisation to maximise effective use of WAN link

Priority Allocation

Control what traffic is considered priority if there is ever contention over what traffic should be prioritized.

Traffic Matching

Shape traffic based on:

  • source or destination IP address
  • source or destination port
  • Protocol
  • Type of Service bit