Platform SDK: Quality of Service

Introduction to QOS

If you've ever endured demonstrations of new software touting real-time audio and video to the desktop (gobbling megabits per second on already-taxed network resources), only to find an important file transfer inching along, you'll find a solution in Quality of Service. If you're the network administrator, charged with ensuring that mission-critical applications have sufficient bandwidth to keep the company functioning, while users flood the network with multimedia application data, you, too may be interested in Quality of Service.

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