
32 Chapter 2: End-to-End QoS: Quality of Service at Layer 3 and Layer 2
• LAN-to-WAN connections—When traffic is flowing from a LAN, where bandwidth
is typically at least 10 Mbps, to a WAN, where bandwidth is typically less than 10
Mbps, the possibility of congestion is very real.
• Aggregation—When several links are aggregated and their traffic transmitted over a
single link, the possibility exists that a situation may cause congestion. If ten 10-Mbps
links were being aggregated into a Gigabit Ethernet connection, congestion would not
be possible, because the single link’s bandwidth would exceed that of the aggregated
links. However, it is more ...