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What is the purpose of traffic shaping?

The correct answer is B. to provide fair queuing for buffered flows. Traffic shaping retains excess packets in a queue and then schedules the excess for later transmission over increments of time. policevsshape.html#policingvsshaping

Submitted by fatima_kr· Mar 5, 2026IP Services

Question

What is the purpose of traffic shaping?

Options

  • Ato mitigate delays over slow links
  • Bto provide fair queuing for buffered flows
  • Cto limit the bandwidth that a flow can use to
  • Dbe a marking mechanism that identifies different flows

How the community answered

(46 responses)
  • A
    4% (2)
  • B
    91% (42)
  • C
    2% (1)
  • D
    2% (1)

Explanation

Traffic shaping retains excess packets in a queue and then schedules the excess for later transmission over increments of time. policevsshape.html#policingvsshaping

Topics

#QoS#traffic shaping#bandwidth management#queuing

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