Chapter 7. Traffic Shaping with Queues and Priorities
In this chapter, we look at how to use traffic shaping to allocate bandwidth resources efficiently and according to a specified policy. If the term traffic shaping seems unfamiliar, rest assured it means what you think it means: that you’ll be altering the way your network allocates resources in order to satisfy the requirements of your users and their applications. With a proper understanding of your network traffic and the applications and users that generate it, you can, in fact, go quite a bit of distance toward “bigger, better, faster, more” just by optimizing your network for the traffic ...
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