IP Quality of Service (Hardcover)

The complete resource for understanding and deploying IP quality of service for Cisco networks

Learn to deliver and deploy IP QoS and MPLS-based traffic engineering by understanding:
• QoS fundamentals and the need for IP QoS
• Differentiated Services QoS architecture and its enabling QoS functionality
• Integrated Services QoS model and its enabling QoS functions
• ATM, Frame Relay, and IEEE 802.1p/802.1Q QoS technologies and how they interwork with IP QoS
• MPLS and MPLS VPN QoS and how they interwork with IP QoS
• MPLS traffic engineering
• Routing policies, general IP QoS functions, and other miscellaneous QoS information

Quality of service (QoS) technologies provide networks with greater reliability in delivering applications, as well as control over access, delay, loss, content quality, and bandwidth. IP Quality of Service serves as an essential resource and design guide for anyone planning to deploy QoS services in Cisco networks. The emphasis is on real-world application-going beyond conceptual explanations to teach actual deployment.

IP Quality of Service is written for internetworking professionals who are responsible for designing and maintaining IP services for corporate intranets and for service provider network infrastructures. Because incorporating some measure of QoS is an integral part of any network design process, IP Quality of Service applies to all IP networks-corporate intranets, service provider networks, and the Internet.