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Policing vs Shaping in Cisco QoS by Ali Shaker is a document available to read on EtoBox.
Cisco IOS QoS offers two mechanisms for traffic regulation - policing and shaping. Policing uses features like CAR and Traffic Policing to enforce policies by typically dropping excess traffic. Shaping uses features like GTS, Class-Based Shaping, DTS, and FRTS to delay excess traffic using queues to smooth traffic and regulate bandwidth. Both policing and shaping use the token bucket mechanism to measure traffic against configured rates and burst sizes and determine if traffic conforms or exceeds the alloca
- Author
- Ali Shaker
- Language
- EN