WFQ (Weighted Fair Queuing):

Weighted Fair Queuing is a queuing algorithm that combines

fair queuing and preferential weighting. The fairness aspect
of WFQ functions similarly to round-robin queuing, with
queues serviced in a continuously repeating sequence from
top to bottom, and then starting at the top again. The
weighting aspect of WFQ applies a "weight" to a queue that
indicates the importance of the queue in relation to the
available resources. The weight is used to ensure that more
important queues get serviced more often than other less
important queues. With WFQ, queues are first sorted in
order of their increasing weighted value. Then, each queue is serviced in order of its
weighted proportion to the available resources.

Weighted fair queuing (WFQ) is a method of automatically smoothing out the flow of
data in packet-switched communication networks by sorting packets to minimize the
average latency and prevent exaggerated discrepancies between the transmission
efficiency afforded to narrowband versus broadband signals. In WFQ, the priority
given to network traffic is inversely proportional to the signal bandwidth. Thus,
narrowband signals are passed along first, and broadband signals are buffered.

WFQ has little or no effect on the speed at which narrowband signals are transmitted,
but tends to slow down the transmission of broadband signals, especially during times
of peak network traffic. Broadband signals share the resources that remain after low-
bandwidth signals have been transmitted. The resource sharing is done according to
assigned weights. In flow-based WFQ, also called standard WFQ, packets are classified
into flows according to one of four criteria: the source Internet Protocol address (IP
address), the destination IP address, the source Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)
or User Datagram Protocol (UDP) port, or the destination TCP or UDP port. Each flow
receives an equal allocation of network bandwidth, hence the term fair.

Priority Queuing is the oldest of the queuing techniques. Traffic is prioritized with a
priority-list, applied to an interface with a priority-group command. The traffic goes
into one of four queues: high, medium, normal, or low priority. When the router is
ready to transmit a packet, it searches the high queue for a packet. If there is one, it
gets sent. If not, the medium queue is checked. If there is a packet, it is sent. If not,
the normal, and finally the low priority queues are checked. For the next packet, the
process repeats. If there is enough traffic in the high queue, the other queues may get
starved: they never get serviced.

WFQ can prevent high-bandwidth traffic from overwhelming the resources of a

network, a phenomenon which can cause partial or complete failure of low-bandwidth
communications during periods of high traffic in poorly managed networks.

This can be seen as a combination of priority queuing and fair queuing. All queues are
serviced so that none are starved, but some queues are serviced more than others. A
weight is applied to queues to give some queues higher priority. For example, one
queue may get half the available bandwidth and other queues will get an allocation of
the remaining bandwidth. Traffic may be prioritized according to packet markings,
source and destination IP address fields, port numbers, and information in the ToS
field. WFQ weights traffic so that low-bandwidth traffic gets a fair level of priority. If
high-priority queues are not in use, lower-priority traffic uses its queues. This
prevents high-bandwidth traffic from grabbing an unfair share of resources.

Dax Product Offering: Some of the Dax the product that supports “WFQ (Weighted
Fair Queuing)” is as follows:

DX-800XE series:
http://www.daxnetworks.com/Products/Routers/Dax%20DX-80XE%20series.asp

DX-1721:
http://www.daxnetworks.com/Products/Routers/Dax DX-1721.asp

DX-1751:
http://www.daxnetworks.com/Products/Routers/Dax DX-1751.asp

DX-1841:
http://www.daxnetworks.com/Products/Routers/Dax DX-1841.asp

DX-2801:
http://www.daxnetworks.com/Products/Routers/Dax DX-2801.asp

DX-2810:
http://www.daxnetworks.com/Products/Routers/Dax DX-2810.asp

DX-2811:
http://www.daxnetworks.com/Products/Routers/Dax DX-2811.asp
DX-3725:
http://www.daxnetworks.com/Products/Routers/Dax DX-3725.asp

DX-3745:
http://www.daxnetworks.com/Products/Routers/Dax DX-3745.asp

DX-3755:
http://www.daxnetworks.com/Products/Routers/Dax DX-3755.asp

DX-3765:
http://www.daxnetworks.com/Products/Routers/Dax DX-3765.asp

DX-3775:
http://www.daxnetworks.com/Products/Routers/Dax DX-3775.asp

DX-3825:
http://www.daxnetworks.com/Products/Routers/Dax DX-3825.asp

DX-3845:
http://www.daxnetworks.com/Products/Routers/Dax DX-3845.asp

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https://www.daxnetworks.com/downloads/PFF.zip

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