What Are the Differences Between Traffic Policing and Traffic Shaping

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Multiple Choice

What are the differences between traffic policing and traffic shaping?

• A) For traffic shaping, you can adjust the usage of the buffer for the traffic that exceeds the CIR.
• B) For traffic policing, you can adjust the usage of the buffer for the traffic that exceeds the CIR.
• C) For traffic shaping, the router buffers excess packets until the bandwidth is available again.
• D) Traffic policing uses the token bucket algorithm and traffic shaping uses the SPD algorithm.
• E) Traffic shaping is applied in the inbound direction and traffic policing is applied in the outbound direction.

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