Quality of Service (QoS): An Overview
Quality of Service (QoS) can be defined as any technology that manages data traffic with the aim of reducing packet loss, latency, and jitter on the network. It can control and manage network resources by setting priorities for particular types of data on the network.
Enterprise networks require to provide prediction and measurement services like applications, including voice, video, and delay-sensitive-data. The majority of organizations use Quality of Service in order to meet the traffic requirements of sensitive applications, including real-time voice and video, and to prevent the degradation of quality caused by packet loss, delay, and jitter.
Organizations can easily achieve Quality of Service with the help of specific tools and techniques like jitter buffer and traffic shaping. For several organizations, Quality of Service is included in the service-level agreement along with...