
14 Chapter 1: Introducing IP Quality of Service
the routing table, without any knowledge of the flow requirements or the resource
availability along the route. QoS routing is a routing mechanism that takes into account a
flow’s QoS requirements and has some knowledge of the resource availability in the
network in its route selection criteria.
Appendix C, “Routing Policies,” offers more detail on these QoS functions.
Layer 2 QoS Technologies
Support for QoS is available in some Layer 2 technologies, including ATM, Frame Relay,
Token Ring, and recently in the Ethernet family of switched LANs. As a connection-
oriented technology, ATM offers the strongest ...