> # Bandwidth Fairness

> This feature improves fairness of bandwidth allocation among all ports and provides better throughput average to individual data streams. Bandwidth fairness can be configured per module.

> As of Cisco SAN-OS Release 3.1(2), all 48-port and 24-port 4-Gbps Fibre Channel switching modules, as well as 18-port Fibre Channel/4-port Gigabit Ethernet Multiservice modules, have bandwidth fairness enabled by default. As of Cisco NX-OS Release 4.1(1), all the 8-Gbps Fibre Channel switching modules have bandwidth fairness enabled by default.

> Caution | When you disable or enable bandwidth fairness, the change does not take effect until you reload the module.

> Note This feature is supported only on the 48-port and 24-port 4-Gbps modules, the 8-Gbps modules, and the 18/4-port Multiservice Module (MSM).

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