How do you balance the trade-offs between throughput, delay, jitter, and packet loss in traffic shaping?
Traffic shaping is a technique to control the flow of network traffic and ensure Quality of Service (QoS) for different types of applications and users. However, traffic shaping also involves trade-offs between four key performance metrics: throughput, delay, jitter, and packet loss. How do you balance these trade-offs and optimize your traffic shaping strategy? In this article, we will explain what these metrics mean, why they matter, and how to use traffic shaping algorithms and techniques to achieve your QoS goals.