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Which feature can you implement to reduce global synchronization?

The correct answer is B. WRED. WRED is a congestion avoidance mechanism designed to mitigate global synchronization by proactively dropping packets before queues fill completely, leading to earlier and more staggered TCP congestion window reductions.

Submitted by luis.pe· Mar 6, 2026Infrastructure

Question

Which feature can you implement to reduce global synchronization?

Options

  • Apolicing
  • BWRED
  • CNBAR
  • Dmarking

How the community answered

(36 responses)
  • B
    94% (34)
  • C
    3% (1)
  • D
    3% (1)

Why each option

WRED is a congestion avoidance mechanism designed to mitigate global synchronization by proactively dropping packets before queues fill completely, leading to earlier and more staggered TCP congestion window reductions.

Apolicing

Policing aggressively drops packets when a configured rate is exceeded, which can contribute to global synchronization if multiple flows are policed simultaneously.

BWREDCorrect

WRED (Weighted Random Early Detection) is a congestion avoidance mechanism that randomly drops packets before a queue is full, based on calculated average queue depth. This early, random dropping helps to prevent multiple TCP flows from simultaneously entering congestion avoidance, thus reducing the likelihood of global synchronization.

CNBAR

NBAR (Network-Based Application Recognition) is used for classifying traffic based on application and protocol, not for congestion avoidance or preventing global synchronization.

Dmarking

Marking (e.g., DSCP or CoS) is a quality of service mechanism used to prioritize traffic, but it does not directly prevent global synchronization; it works in conjunction with other mechanisms like WRED.

Concept tested: Congestion avoidance with WRED

Source: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/ios/qos/configuration/guide/12_4t/qos_c124t_book/qos_wred.html

Topics

#WRED#global synchronization#congestion avoidance#QoS

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