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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)- A4% (2)
- B91% (42)
- C2% (1)
- D2% (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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