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P-660R/H-D Series User’s Guide
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Media Bandwidth Management
Advanced Setup
This chapter describes bandwidth management with one level of child class. This chapter
applies to the P-660H-D.
16.1 Media Bandwidth Management Overview
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.
Bandwidth management addresses questions such as:
• Who gets how much access to specific applications?
• What priority level should you give to each type of traffic?
• Which traffic must have guaranteed delivery?
• How much bandwidth should be allotted to guarantee delivery?
Bandwidth management also allows you to configure the allowed output for an interface to
match what the network can handle. This helps reduce delays and dropped packets at the next
routing device. For example, you can set the WAN interface speed to 1024 kbps (or less) if the
ADSL connection has an upstream speed of 1024 kbps.
Refer to Section 16.11 on page 167 to enable and configure bandwidth on the interfaces.
Refer to Section 16.12 on page 168 to configure bandwidth classes.
Refer to Section 16.13 on page 174 to view bandwidth usage information.
You can use the wizard setup screens to configure basic bandwidth management. Refer to
Chapter 1 on page 38 for more information.