This counter reports the octets dropped from this queue by the WRED (Weighted Random Early Detection) algorithm, a proactive congestion-avoidance mechanism that discards some traffic before the queue actually fills up. It applies to a transmit queue on a subscriber circuit's session where QoS queuing is enabled. Admins track it per queue to see how traffic is actually being scheduled and, for the dropped variants, where congestion is forcing discards on this subscriber circuit. Discontinuities in the value can occur when the management system re-initializes, so a sudden reset does not necessarily mean the underlying activity stopped.