Busyhour Settings
[Busyhour Settings] plays a crucial role in managing bandwidth. .Generally opening hours Mon-Fri: 09h00 to 18h00 is configured to be busy hours, for this period sees the advent of bandwidth-intensive applications in both intranet and extranet.
| Default Type | : | Time segment unspecified in [Rules] below fall into this Default type either as idle or busy hours. |
| Rules | : | Defines time segment. The time segments are matched in sequence on a first-match basis. If none of the rules match, the default type is used. If time segment in [Default Type] is defined as idle hours, then unspecified time segment in this [Rules] is taken as idle hours as well. |
| E | : | Check the field box to add time segments in this list to [Rules]. |
| Day of Week | : | Select a day of the week. |
| From | : | Start time. |
| To | : | End time. |
| Type | : | Defines the time segment, either busy or idle hours. |
For the case that time period 09:00-18:00 from Monday to Saturday belongs to busy hour and only Sunday belongs to idle hour, set an idle rule for 00:00-00:00 on Sunday beyond a busy rule for Any day 09:00-18:00. The rule would be first matched from the top down.
As is shown in the figure, Sunday and hours beyond Mon-Sat: 09h00-18h00 are set to be idle hours. Remaining hours of the week belong to busy hours.