The invention discloses a multi-stage hierarchical
bandwidth management method, which comprises the following steps of: A10, configuring CIR (
Committed Information Rate) and PIR (peak Information Rate) (or EIR (Excess Information Rate)) of each stage of scheduling node according to a business model, wherein the CIR of the node is set according to the bandwidth purchased by a user in the first stage, the
bandwidth distribution principle of each node from the second stage of scheduling is shown in the description, EIRni=PIRni-CIRni, and n is not less than 2; and A20, respectively marking messages as green, yellow or red by using MEF (Managed
Extensibility Framework), RFC2697 (
Request for Comments 2697) or RFC2698 algorithms in the first stage, configuring each node into a color sensitive mode and a
coupling mode from the second stage, and shaping the traffic according to the MEF
algorithm. By using the invention, the multi-stage hierarchical
bandwidth management is realized on an exchanging
chip supporting the MEF
Traffic Shaping algorithm without need of special ASIC (
Application Specific Integrated Circuits) or hardware; and the requirements are satisfied through updating
software under the situation of changing or updating the business so that considerable hardware cost is saved; and the
bandwidth distribution algorithm of the hierarchical business model is simple and convenient for web masters to configure.