From the course: Firewall Administration Essential Training
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Traffic shaping
From the course: Firewall Administration Essential Training
Traffic shaping
- [Instructor] It isn't difficult to understand why it would be useful to make sure nobody on your network hogs all of the bandwidth. It just isn't fair to others when one device needs as much data as the network will provide, a network without limitations will give that device all of the bandwidth it possibly can to the exclusion of others. We want a network that fairly divides up the bandwidth, making the experience acceptable for everyone. The way we do this is with traffic shaping. There are a lot of options for traffic shaping, so let's talk about what they are and how you might use them. Traffic shaping is a quality of service technology that prioritizes traffic that you define as a higher priority than other traffic, which will be a lower priority in the system. Different strategies can be employed to accomplish this by employing different types of network schedulers that are also known as packet schedulers. Different networking technology companies employ different strategies…
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