16- and 36-Port Ethernet Switch Module for Cisco 2600 Series, Cisco 3600 Series, and Cisco 3700 Series
Glossary
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Cisco IOS Release 12.2(2)XT, 12.2(8)T, and 12.2(15)ZJ
VQP—VLAN Query Protocol.
VTP—VLAN Trunking Protocol.
WAN—wide area network. A communications network that covers a wide geographic area such as state
or country. A LAN (local area network) is within a building or complex, and a MAN (metropolitan area
network) generally covers a city or suburb.
WFQ—weighted fair queuing. In QoS, a flow-based queuing algorithm that schedules low-volume
traffic first while letting high-volume traffic share the remaining bandwidth. This is handled by assigning
a weight to each flow, where lower weights are the first to be serviced.
WRR—Weighted Round-Robin. Type of round-robin scheduling that prevents low-priority queues from
being completely neglected during periods of high-priority traffic. The WRR scheduler transmits some
packets from each queue in turn. The number of packets it transmits corresponds to the relative
importance of the queue.