In a global economic climate, network administrators must focus on managing capital pending¡Xa concern that forces resource utilization to center stage. The WGSW-24000/2620 allows smart management of network resources with two key features:
1. Ingress and egress rate-limiting to provision bandwidth intelligently.
2. QoS support with 802.1p and DiffServ for priority traffic allowing Layer 2 QoS priorities to be preserved over the WAN (typically a Layer 3 feature).
Network administrators can configure the WGSW-24000/2620 to control bandwidth-wasting traffic¡Xsuch as music streaming to desktops¡Xby dynamically lowering the priority and limiting bandwidth to a trickle. Such features benefit metropolitan providers by enabling them to charge a fee to provision different bandwidth and QoS priorities as value-added services for customers.