GLOBAL STRATEGY. Global strategy on the micro level pertains to the allocation of a company's resources in a manner that will take advantage of profit opportunities outside of domestic markets. In its broadest interpretation, that definition encompasses activities such as overseas manufacturing, foreign investing, and importing.
Shaping is when the router manages traffic to ensure that the average rate of transmission, over time, does not exceed a specified value. The main application of shaping is when you have a circuit whose speed is less than the clock speed of the interface that circuit is delivered on. A common example might be a 10Mbps circuit delivered on a Fast Ethernet interface.
Directed circuit: In a directed graph, a circuit in. which al] the edges are oriented in the same direction. is called a directed circuit. It is often convenient to rep-. resent paths and circuits by the sequence of edges rep-. resenting them.