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More about: Bandwidth Management and Prioritization
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More about: Bandwidth Management and Prioritization
Integrated bandwidth management ensures high speech quality for
telephone calls over the Internet with the FRITZ!Box.
The FRITZ!Box also offers a prioritization function that can be used to di-
vide network applications and network devices into three different cat-
egories. The category assigned determines whether an application or
device is treated with higher or lower priority when it accesses the Inter-
net.
6.1
Bandwidth Management
The FRITZ!Box is equipped with integrated bandwidth
management. This function ensures that the speech quali-
ty during telephone calls over the Internet is not reduced
by surfing activity. To do this, the FRITZ!Box adjusts all up-
loads and downloads to the currently available band-
width. Because the FRITZ!Box also places a higher priority
on Internet telephony connections over Internet data con-
nections, unwelcome interference is largely avoided. Just
as for any other analog call, once Internet telephony trans-
mission capacity has been reached, remote partners re-
ceive a busy signal.
6.2
The Prioritization of Network Applications and Network Devices
Prioritization is a function you can use to specify that net-
work applications and network devices be treated with
higher or lower priority when they access the Internet con-
nection. For example, you may wish to ensure that appli-
cations like Internet telephony, IPTV and video on demand
are always treated with higher priority than other applica-
tions. You can also specify that file-sharing applications
like eMule and BitTorrent always have to wait behind on-
line games.
The following algorithm is used in the FRITZ!Box to send
data packets according to their prioritization:
