Summary

Particle buffering provides an efficient way to buffer packets of varying sizes with minimum memory waste. Since its introduction in Cisco IOS Release 11.1, particle buffering has become the de-facto Cisco IOS buffering scheme and now many new Cisco IOS-based platforms are being designed to use it.

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