Quality of Service
As a result of emerging real-time and mission-critical applications, enterprise customers realize that the traditional “Best Effort” IP network service model is unsuitable. The main concern is that poorly behaved flows adversely affect other flows that share the same resources. It is difficult to tune resources to meet the requirements of all deployed applications.
Quality of Service (QoS) measures the ability of network and computing systems to provide different levels of services to selected applications and associated network flows. Customers that deploy mission-critical applications and real-time applications have an economic incentive to invest in QoS capabilities so that acceptable response times are guaranteed within ...
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