Skip to Content
Cisco IOS™ 12.0 Quality of Service
book

Cisco IOS™ 12.0 Quality of Service

by Cisco Systems, Inc.
April 1999
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
288 pages
5h 33m
English
Cisco Press
Content preview from Cisco IOS™ 12.0 Quality of Service

Chapter 15. Configuring RSVP

This chapter describes how to configure Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP), which is an IP service that allows end systems or hosts on either side of a router network to establish a reserved-bandwidth path between them to predetermine and ensure QoS for their data transmission.

To locate documentation of related commands, you can search online at http://www.cisco.com.

RSVP allows end systems to request QoS guarantees from the network. The need for network resource reservations differs for data traffic versus for real-time traffic, as follows:

  • Data traffic seldom needs reserved bandwidth because internetworks provide datagram services for data traffic. This asynchronous packet switching may not need guarantees of service ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Start your free trial

You might also like

QoS for IP/MPLS Networks

QoS for IP/MPLS Networks

Santiago Alvarez
Cisco Catalyst QoS: Quality of Service in Campus Networks

Cisco Catalyst QoS: Quality of Service in Campus Networks

Mike Flannagan - CCIE® No. 7651, Richard Froom - CCIE No. 5102, Kevin Turek - CCIE No. 7284

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 1578701619Purchase book