QoS Profile

Question 1

What do you use QoS Profile for?

Answer 1

define values of up to eight QoS Classes contained within that single profile

Question 2

What can you define with a QoS Profile?

Answer 2

QoS Priority Queuing and QoS Bandwidth Management for QoS classes

Question 3

Does the pre-defined QoS default profile and the classes defined in the profile have predefined maximum or guaranteed bandwidth limits?

Answer 3

no

Question 4

What does each QoS profile allow to configure?

Answer 4

1. individual bandwidth and priority settings for up eight QoS classes
2. total bandwidth allotted for the eight classes combined

Question 5

What is Egress Max (Mbps)?

Answer 5

total bandwidth allocation for traffic matching that profile

Question 6

What is Egress Guaranteed (Mbps)?

Answer 6

amount of bandwidth guaranteed for matching traffic

Question 7

What happens when Egress Guaranteed (Mbps) is exceeded?

Answer 7

the firewall begins passing traffic on a best-effort basis, which means that during high traffic periods, any traffic exceeding this guaranteed bandwidth limit will not be prioritized and is subject to potential dropping or delays

Question 8

What happens when Egress Max (Mbps) is exceeded?

Answer 8

the firewall drops the traffic that goes over this limit