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traffic shaping

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traffic shaping

Using methods to keep traffic flowing smoothly in a network. Although the term is often used synonymously with "traffic engineering," traffic shaping deals with managing the network moment to moment, whereas traffic engineering refers to the overall strategies employed in a network. Typically deployed at the edge of the network, traffic shaping may be used to limit bursty traffic in general or to limit undesired traffic such as spam or peer-to-peer downloads. See traffic engineering.



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This design employs traffic shaping in combination with the Header Compression feature to ensure low packet jitter and predictable bit-rate requirements, both essential for quality VOIP calls.
CipherTrust Edge is the only perimeter security device on the market to include sophisticated traffic shaping functionality to block bad messages.
Policy-based traffic and QoS management capabilities identify voice and interactive traffic and assign appropriate bandwidth and traffic shaping policies to each type.
 
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