Summary

Bandwidth management allows you to allocate an interface's outgoing capacity to specific types of traffic. It can also help you make sure that the Prestige forwards certain types of traffic (especially real-time applications) with minimum delay. With the use of real-time applications such as Voice-over-IP (VoIP) increasing, the requirement for bandwidth allocation is also increasing.

Refer to the User's Guide for background information.

 Label Description
Active

The read-only labels represent the physical interfaces.

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

Speed (kbps)

Enter the amount of bandwidth for this interface that you want to allocate using bandwidth management. This appears as the bandwidth budget of the interface’s root class.

The recommendation is to set this speed to match what the device connected to the port can handle. For example, set the WAN interface speed to 1000 kbps if the WAN port's connection has an upstream speed of 1000 kbps.

Scheduler Select either Priority-Based or Fairness-Based from the drop-down menu to control the traffic flow.
Select Priority-Based to give preference to bandwidth classes with higher priorities.
Select Fairness-Based to treat all bandwidth classes equally.
Max Bandwidth Usage

Select the Yes check box to have the Prestige divide up all of the interface’s unallocated and/or unused bandwidth among the bandwidth classes that require bandwidth.

Do not select this if you want to reserve bandwidth for traffic that does not match a bandwidth class or you want to limit the speed of this interface (see the Speed field description).

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