Cisco 8110 ATM LIMs has the option for Shaper. The shaper provides a mechanism for determining priorities between different classes of traffic. For example, class 0 can be defined to match CBR traffic and class 1 to VBR traffic. If for example the CES port is inactive all the bandwidth of the VP may be used for other, lower priority VCs. When creating a virtual path, options may be used in combination with the required parameters for that path.
Traffic shaping parameters define the negotiated traffic shape of a connection.
The traffic shape refers to the load balancing of a network, i.e. configures the data flows to maximize the efficiency of the network. A Shaper can be assigned to egress or ingress path. Version 5.1c Optional Features 1. The Ethernet interface is either used as an Ethernet to ATM uplink or as Ethernet access to Management. There is no forwarding between the ports.