
18 Chapter 1: Introducing IP Quality of Service
Part III
Chapter 10, the only chapter in Part III, talks about the need for traffic engineering and
discusses MPLS traffic engineering operation.
Part IV
This part of the book has useful information that didn’t fit well with previous sections but
still is relevant in providing IP QoS.
Appendix A, “Cisco Modular QoS Command-Line Interface,” details the new user interface
that enables flexible and modular QoS configuration.
Appendix B, “Packet Switching Mechanisms,” introduces the various packet-switching
mechanisms available on Cisco platforms. It compares the switching mechanisms and
recommends CEF, which ...