- The purpose of traffic shaping: A document explaining why traffic shaping is used: http://help.fortinet.com/fos50hlp/54/Content/FortiOS/fortigate-traffic-shaping-54/TS_About.htm
- Comparing Traffic Policing and Traffic Shaping for Bandwidth Limiting: The difference between policing and shaping: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/quality-of-service-qos/qos-policing/19645-policevsshape.html