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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.
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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)- A7% (3)
- B2% (1)
- C2% (1)
- D89% (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.
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.
Output serialization delay is similarly negligible on campus Gigabit or 10G links and is not a common campus congestion cause.
Rx-queue (receive queue) starvation is not a standard campus networking term for congestion - congestion is fundamentally an output phenomenon where transmit queues overflow.
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
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