Bandwidth allocation

This section describes bandwidth allocation configuration.

Overview

You can use the bandwidth allocation fields to manage data rates and the network bandwidth used for incoming and outgoing data in your flows.

See Transfer CFT bandwidth allocation for more details.

Fields

The user interface indicates default values.

Enable

Enables or disables bandwidth allocation.

Global data rates

Specifies limits on the rates of incoming and outgoing data.

• Unlimited specifies there is no maximum rate for inbound or outbound communications.
• Limited allows setting maximums, in kilobytes per second, for the rates of incoming and outgoing data.

Priority

Additionally, you can specify the priority percentages for the high, medium and low service classes. The system rounds the total of percentages to 100. The system also sorts the percentages to ensure high has the highest percentage and low has the lowest percentage. A service class defines network session parameters that control rate, borrowing and bandwidth pending the class. A service class percentage can be zero, but not less than zero. The default percentages for the service classes are high 80, medium 15 and low 5.