inventory manager software

A less inventory manager software is to couple Access-Layer policers with hardware and software (campus, WAN, and VPN) queuing policies, with both sets of policies provisioning for a less-than best-effort Scavenger class

In the former case, imagine that the PC generates more than 5 Mbps of traffic, perhaps because of a large file transfer or backup. Because there is generally abundant capacity within the campus to carry the traffic, congestion (under normal operating conditions) is rarely, if ever, experienced. Typically, the uplinks to the distribution and core layers of the campus network are Gigabit Ethernet, which requires 1000 Mbps of traffic from the Access-Layer switch to create congestion. If the traffic was destined to the far side of a WAN or VPN link (which are rarely more than 5 Mbps in speed), dropping would occur even without the Access-Layer policer, simply because of the campus/WAN speed mismatch and resulting bottleneck. TCP's sliding-windows mechanism eventually would find an optimal speed (less than 5 Mbps) for the inventory manager software