Episode 104: Bandwidth Management — Shaping and Prioritizing Traffic

This episode explores bandwidth management techniques, including traffic shaping and prioritization. Shaping controls the flow of traffic to match available bandwidth, while prioritization ensures critical applications such as voice or video receive preference. These concepts are important on the exam because they illustrate how networks balance performance across competing demands.

Real-world examples include applying Quality of Service (QoS) policies to prioritize VoIP packets or shaping bulk data transfers to avoid saturating links. Troubleshooting scenarios include identifying when misapplied QoS rules degrade service or when congestion occurs despite shaping. Understanding bandwidth management ensures you can answer exam questions and implement policies that optimize performance in real-world networks. Produced by BareMetalCyber.com, where you’ll find more cyber audio courses, books, and information to strengthen your certification path.