[This is preliminary documentation and subject to change.]
If you've ever endured impromptu demonstrations of cool new software touting jittery, real-time audio and video to the desktop (gobbling megabits per second on the already-taxed local LAN segment, corporate network backbone, WAN, and video server's subnet), only to find your mission-critical file transfer is inching along at a pace that ensures you'll miss your deadline, you may be interested in Quality of Service, or QOS. If you're the network administrator, charged with ensuring mission-critical applications have sufficient bandwidth to keep the company functioning, while content junkies unwittingly flood the network with multimedia application data, you too may be interested in QOS.
This section contains information on the following topics: