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15.6.4 Bandwidth Management Priorities

The following table describes the priorities that you can apply to traffic that the ZyXEL Device forwards out through an interface.

Table 98 Bandwidth Management Priorities

PRIORITY LEVELS: TRAFFIC WITH A HIGHER PRIORITY GETS THROUGH FASTER WHILE TRAFFIC WITH A LOWER PRIORITY IS DROPPED IF THE NETWORK IS CONGESTED.

High

Typically used for voice traffic or video that is especially sensitive to jitter (jitter

 

is the variations in delay).

 

 

Mid

Typically used for “excellent effort” or better than best effort and would include

 

important business traffic that can tolerate some delay.

Low

This is typically used for non-critical “background” traffic such as bulk transfers

 

that are allowed but that should not affect other applications and users.

15.7 Configuring Summary

Click Advanced > Bandwidth MGMT to open the screen as shown next.

Enable bandwidth management on an interface and set the maximum allowed bandwidth for that interface.

Figure 136 Bandwidth Management: Summary

The following table describes the labels in this screen.

Table 99 Media Bandwidth Management: Summary

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

 

 

Interface

These read-only labels represent the physical interfaces. Select an interface’s check box

 

to enable bandwidth management on that interface. Bandwidth management applies to

 

all traffic flowing out of the router through the interface, regardless of the traffic’s source.

 

Traffic redirect or IP alias may cause LAN-to-LAN traffic to pass through the ZyXEL

 

Device and be managed by bandwidth management.

Active

Select an interface’s check box to enable bandwidth management on that interface.

 

 

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