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c. Select a policy from the list, or click on New below they policy pane to create a new policy and select the
newly created policy.
d. Select an Application category, Application, Action, and Priority from the New Rule pop-up window,
as shown in Figure 150.
4. Click on OK.
Throttle
This button allows you to limit the bandwidth usage of an application or an application category on a given
role. So, you can set the upstream limit and downstream limit for an application or an application category on a
given role.
For example, you can rate limit applications video streaming applications like YouTube, Netflix.
You can also view the bandwidth contract table and create a new bandwidth contract. See the following figure.
Figure 152 Throttle Application and New Bandwidth Contract
QoS
This button allows you to set the priority for a given application or an application category on a given role. For
example, you can set the video/voice sessions originating from wireless users with a different priority to that of
other web applications so that traffic would be prioritized accordingly in the your network.
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