Traffic Shaping
Traffic shaping regulates network data transfers to ensure a specific performance
level. Traffic shaping delays the flow of packets defined as less important than prioritized
traffic streams. Traffic shaping enables traffic control out an interface to match its flow to
the speed of a remote target‘s interface and ensure traffic conforms applied policies. Traffic
can be shaped to meet downstream requirements and eliminate network congestion when data rates
are in conflict.Apply traffic shaping to specific applications to apply
application categories. When application and ACL rules are conflicting, an application takes
precedence over an application category, then ACLs.
