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Chapter 7
Quality of Service (QoS)
Overview of Quality of Service
This chapter describes the concept of Quality of Service (QoS) and
explains how to configure QoS on the switch.
QoS is a feature of Gigabit switch that allows you to specify different
service levels for traffic traversing the switch. QoS is an effective
control mechanism for networks that have heterogeneous traffic
patterns. Using QoS, you can specify the service that a traffic type
receives.
The main benefit of QoS is that it allows you to have control over the
types of traffic that receive enhanced service from the system. For
example, if video traffic requires a higher priority than data traffic,
using QoS you can assign a different QoS profile to those VLANs that
are transmitting video traffic.
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