
C HAPTER
8
Layer 2 QoS: Interworking with
IP QoS
Most networks use diverse network technologies. Popular link-layer technologies, such as
Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM), Frame Relay, and Ethernet, offer quality of service
(QoS) functionality at Layer 2. This chapter discusses these multi-access Layer 2 techno-
logies and their QoS offerings. Because QoS is only as good as its weakest link, it is
necessary to ensure that Internet Protocol (IP) QoS is seamless across diverse link
technologies. To provide end-to-end IP QoS, it is necessary that QoS at Layer 2 map
to IP QoS, and vice versa.
ATM
ATM
1
is a fixed-size cell-switching and multiplexing technology ...