Bandwidth management is the process of measuring and controlling the communications (traffic, packets) on a network link, to avoid filling the link to capacity or overfilling the link,[1] which would result in network congestion and poor performance of the network.
Bandwidth is described by bit rate and measured in units of bits per second (bit/s) or bytes per second (B/s).
[2] Bandwidth management mechanisms may be used to further engineer performance and includes: Issues which may limit the performance of a given link include: