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Bandwidth Management

26.1 Overview

This chapter contains information about configuring bandwidth management and editing rules.

ZyXEL’s Bandwidth Management allows you to specify bandwidth management rules based on an application.

In the figure below, uplink traffic goes from the LAN device (A) to the WAN device (B). Bandwidth management is applied before sending the packets out to the WAN. Downlink traffic comes back from the WAN device (B) to the LAN device (A). Bandwidth management is applied before sending the traffic out to LAN.

Figure 123 Bandwidth Management Example

-> VOIP-> FTP-> HTTP-> Chat, Email

A

B

You can allocate specific amounts of bandwidth capacity (bandwidth budgets) to individual applications (like VoIP, Web, FTP, and E-mail for example).

26.2What You Can Do

Use the General screen to enable bandwidth management and assign bandwidth values (Section 26.4 on page 196).

Use the Advanced screen to configure bandwidth managements rule for the pre-defined services and applications (Section 26.5 on page 196).

Use the Monitor screen to view the amount of network bandwidth that applications running in the network are using (Section 26.6 on page 201).

 

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