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Introducing IP Quality of Service
Service providers and enterprises used to build and support separate networks to carry their
voice, video, mission-critical, and non-mission-critical traffic. There is a growing trend,
however, toward convergence of all these networks into a single, packet-based Internet
Protocol (IP) network.
The largest IP network is, of course, the global Internet. The Internet has grown
exponentially during the past few years, as has its usage and the number of available
Internet-based applications. As the Internet and corporate intranets continue to grow,
applications other than traditional data, such as Voice over ...