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What does traffic shaping do?

The correct answer is A. It queues excess traffic. Traffic policing and traffic shaping have the following differences: Traffic policing directly discards packets with rates that are greater than the traffic policing rate. Traffic shaping, however, buffers packets with rates that are greater than the traffic shaping rate and send

Submitted by asante_acc· Mar 5, 2026IP Services

Question

What does traffic shaping do?

Options

  • AIt queues excess traffic
  • BIt sets QoS attributes within a packet
  • CIt organizes traffic into classes
  • DIt modifies the QoS attributes of a packet

How the community answered

(15 responses)
  • A
    93% (14)
  • C
    7% (1)

Explanation

Traffic policing and traffic shaping have the following differences: Traffic policing directly discards packets with rates that are greater than the traffic policing rate. Traffic shaping, however, buffers packets with rates that are greater than the traffic shaping rate and sends the buffered packets at

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