Not all traffic deserves first-class treatment. Your point-of-sale systems? Priority routing. Security cameras? Sure. Karen from accounting streaming her true crime podcast? That can take the scenic route.
Flow balancing lets you assign traffic by percentage across your connections or have the balancing done dynamically to adapt to changing needs. Business-critical apps get the fast lane. Everything else uses your cost-effective link—until that link actually fails, then it fails over intelligently.
Use it when: