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Which option is a common cause of congestion found in a campus network?

The correct answer is D. Tx-queue starvation. Tx-queue (transmit queue) starvation is the most common cause of congestion in campus networks, occurring when outbound traffic demand exceeds the interface's output capacity.

Advanced Enterprise Campus Networks

Question

Which option is a common cause of congestion found in a campus network?

Options

  • Ainput serialization delay
  • Boutput serialization delay
  • CRx-queue starvation
  • DTx-queue starvation

How the community answered

(44 responses)
  • A
    7% (3)
  • B
    2% (1)
  • C
    2% (1)
  • D
    89% (39)

Why each option

Tx-queue (transmit queue) starvation is the most common cause of congestion in campus networks, occurring when outbound traffic demand exceeds the interface's output capacity.

Ainput serialization delay

Input serialization delay is the time to place bits on a link and is a concern on low-speed WAN links, not a primary congestion cause in high-speed campus switching environments.

Boutput serialization delay

Output serialization delay is similarly negligible on campus Gigabit or 10G links and is not a common campus congestion cause.

CRx-queue starvation

Rx-queue (receive queue) starvation is not a standard campus networking term for congestion - congestion is fundamentally an output phenomenon where transmit queues overflow.

DTx-queue starvationCorrect

In a campus environment, congestion almost always occurs at the output interface where the transmit queue fills faster than the scheduler can drain it, causing tail-drop or WRED drops. Tx-queue starvation results from speed mismatches (e.g., aggregating multiple fast uplinks to a single slower link) or traffic bursts exceeding output bandwidth, which is the typical campus congestion scenario.

Concept tested: Campus network congestion - transmit queue starvation

Source: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/solutions/Enterprise/WAN_and_MAN/QoS_SRND/QoS-SRND-Book/QoSCampus.html

Topics

#QoS#Tx-queue congestion#campus congestion#queuing

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