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WFQ [Weighted Fair Queuing] allocated equal amount of bandwidth to each packet that crosses the interface based on a FIFO [First-In First-Out] basis. That is, no packet receives Priority Queuing. Weighted Fair Queuing assigns equal priority on all packets. However, WFQ also assigns priorities on groups of packets called conversations such as an FTP [File Transfer Protocol] or HTTP [HyperText Transfer Protocol] session. The term conversation is used to indicate a sequence of packets such as a voice conversation which would ideally not be routed word by word.

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