IMPLEMENTING CISCO QOS

Networks must provide secure, predictable, and sometimes even guaranteed services in order to maintain a competitive edge.

Quality of Service (QoS) refers to a networks ability to provide improved service to selected network traffic over various underlying technologies including Frame Relay, ATM, Ethernet and 802.1 networks, SONET, and IP-routed networks.

QoS features provide improved and more predictable network service by providing dedicated bandwidth, reduction of packet loss and other performance degrading events, avoiding and managing network congestion, shaping network traffic, and setting traffic priorities across a network.This text focuses on Cisco's Quality of Service in IP networks.

It presents the reader with detailed information on available QoS technology, implementation strategies, and benefits.

This self-study guide, which aligns to the Cisco Systems-developed CCIP course of the same name, details the products and technologies that Cisco has developed specifically for QoS in service provider and corporate internetworks.

Ciscos newest certification track, CCIP, is geared for the communications and services business.The book is based off of the actual course materials, and as such should be a useful companion to instructor-led training from a Cisco Learning Partner, or as a self-study resource.