ZyXEL Communications 70 Series User Manual

ZyWALL 5/35/70 Series User’s Guide

Chapter 25 Bandwidth Management

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The following table shows the priorities of the bandwidth classes and the amount of bandwidth 
that each class gets.

Suppose that all of the classes except for the administration class need more bandwidth.

• Each class gets up to its budgeted bandwidth. The administration class only uses 1024 

kbps of its budgeted 2048 kbps. 

• The sales and marketing are first to get extra bandwidth because they have the highest 

priority (6). If they each require 1536 kbps or more of extra bandwidth, the ZyWALL 
divides the total 3072 kbps total of unbudgeted and unused bandwidth equally between 
the sales and marketing departments (1536 kbps extra to each for a total of 3584 kbps for 
each) because they both have the highest priority level. 

• Research requires more bandwidth but only gets its budgeted 2048 kbps because all of the 

unbudgeted and unused bandwidth goes to the higher priority sales and marketing 
classes. 

The following table shows the amount of bandwidth that each class gets.

Suppose that all of the classes except for the administration class need more bandwidth.

• Each class gets up to its budgeted bandwidth. The administration class only uses 1024 

kbps of its budgeted 2048 kbps. 

• The ZyWALL divides the total 3072 kbps total of unbudgeted and unused bandwidth 

equally among the other classes. 1024 kbps extra goes to each so the other classes each 
get a total of 3072 kbps. 

Table 138   Priority-based Allotment of Unused and Unbudgeted Bandwidth Example

Root Class: 10240 kbps

Administration: Priority 4, 1024 kbps

Sales: Priority 6, 3584 kbps

Marketing: Priority 6, 3584 kbps

Research: Priority 5, 2048 kbps

Table 139   Fairness-based Allotment of Unused and Unbudgeted Bandwidth Example

Root Class: 10240 kbps

Administration: 1024 kbps

Sales: 3072 kbps

Marketing: 3072 kbps

Research: 3072 kbps