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you configure child-classes with filters for any classes that you configure without filters. The Prestige leaves the bandwidth budget allocated and unused for a class that does not have a filter itself or child-classes with filters. View your configured bandwidth classes and child- classes in the Class Setup screen (see Section 21.9 on page 273 for details).

The total of the configured bandwidth budgets for child-classes cannot exceed the configured bandwidth budget speed of the parent class.

21.3 Proportional Bandwidth Allocation

Bandwidth management allows you to define how much bandwidth each class gets; however, the actual bandwidth allotted to each class decreases or increases in proportion to actual available bandwidth.

21.4 Bandwidth Management Usage Examples

These examples show bandwidth management allotments on a WAN interface that is configured for 640Kbps.

21.4.1 Application-based Bandwidth Management Example

The bandwidth classes in the following example are based solely on application. Each bandwidth class (VoIP, Web, FTP, E-mail and Video) is allotted 128kbps.

Figure 123 Application-based Bandwidth Management Example

21.4.2 Subnet-based Bandwidth Management Example

The following example uses bandwidth classes based solely on LAN subnets. Each bandwidth class (Subnet A and Subnet B) is allotted 320kbps.

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