About Traffic Profiles

A traffic profile is a set of values defined for parameters that are used in protocol messages within the MPE device. Typically, these traffic profile values are used to define the Quality of Service (QoS) for sessions that are managed by those protocol messages. You can use traffic profiles to implement policy and charging control (PCC) rules.

Traffic profiles are used in the MPE device under several situations. For example:

A traffic profile can be applied by a policy rule trigger or by default if no policy rule is triggered.

Each traffic profile has a type associated with it. Since each protocol supports different parameters for controlling QoS settings, the available MPE parameters depend on the underlying protocol. Therefore, each profile type is associated with a single protocol, but a single protocol can support multiple profile types.

You can create multiple traffic profiles of the same type, as the values of the parameters for each profile determine the actual QoS that is associated with that profile. For example, one possible set of traffic profiles is as follows:
Default
Default predefined profile
P2P
Profile for peer-to-peer traffic
RATE_LIMIT_128K
profile to limit download rate to 128 Kbps
RATE_LIMIT_64K
Profile to limit download rate to 64 Kbps
To manage traffic profiles, see: