Chapter 18: Configuring Quality Of Service; Qos Features And Components - Cisco SF 300-08 Administration Manual

Configuring Quality of Service

QoS Features and Components

Cisco Small Business 300 Series Managed Switch Administration Guide
The Quality of Service feature is applied throughout the network to ensure that
network traffic is prioritized according to required criteria and the desired traffic
receives preferential treatment.
This chapter contains the following topics:
• QoS Features and Components
• Configuring QoS
• QoS Basic Mode
• QoS Advanced Mode
• Managing QoS Statistics
The QoS feature is used to optimize network performance.
QoS provides the following:
• Classification of incoming traffic to traffic classes, based on attributes,
including:
- Device Configuration
- Ingress interface
- Packet content
- Combination of these attributes
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