In the context of traffic management in networking, assured traffic is designed to have a certain level of service assurance, often subject to policing and prioritization at ingress points. Policing and soft-policing mechanisms are typically applied to maintain agreed rates and manage burst sizes in this type of traffic, ensuring compliance with service level agreements (SLAs) and providing predictable network performance. This is less common for best-effort traffic, which usually does not have stringent performance guarantees.