Traffic Engineering Glossary Definition

Traffic Engineering is a Telecommunications operations concept used to monitor service health, manage network performance, and respond to faults or outages.

Traffic Engineering is a Network performance concept used to measure, prioritize, or troubleshoot the behavior of traffic and services.

Operations teams use this concept when setting service expectations, detecting failures, prioritizing traffic, and maintaining reliable communications.

Related concepts include Telecommunications, Monitoring and Quality of Service.

Additional Resource: FCC Telecommunications Overview.

Operations teams use this concept when setting baselines, diagnosing congestion, evaluating user experience, and deciding whether a service issue is caused by the network.

Related concepts include Routing.

Additional Resource: IETF Internet Architecture Board Network Guidance.