Why Shape Traffic with DTS?
If you are reading this document, then, most likely, you already have an idea of why you want to shape traffic. The distributed piece of the puzzle should be pretty clear, too – you are distributing the duties of the main processor to the individual card processors. With respect to shaping, many customers are simply trying to avoid exceeding the guaranteed rate of the circuit based on the agreement with the provider. This prevents drops in the cloud and, as a result, reduces retransmissions (with TCP/IP) when the provider discards packets. A common scenario where you need to shape traffic is depicted below. In this example, there is no need for the Central Site to forward traffic at T1 rate if the Branch Office only has a 128K circuit: There are many additional reasons for using DTS. Benefits include an assortment of related Quality of Service (QoS) functionalities, and the drive to use bandwidth as efficiently as possible across varied types of traffic. DTS configures traffic shaping
