What are the differences between traffic policing and traffic shaping?

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For traffic shaping, the router caches excess packets until bandwidth is available again

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For traffic shaping, it can be over-CIR Traffic adjustment for the usage of the buffer

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Traffic shaping is applied in the inlet direction and traffic supervision is applied in the outlet direction

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The token bucket algorithm is used for traffic supervision, and the SPD algorithm is used for traffic shaping

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For traffic policing, the usage of the buffer can be adjusted for traffic exceeding the CIR

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