Russell Smith is a technology consultant and trainer specializing in management and security of Microsoft server and client technologies. He is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer with more than 15 ...

In the context of IP networks, the phrase “quality of service” (QoS) has a specific meaning, describing the quality of the network with regard to the following: These are all particularly important ...

As a voice manager, you have probably heard the term Quality of Service (QoS) and probably have a good idea that it's a set of technologies whose goal, as far as you're concerned, is protecting voice ...

A guide to network quality of service for the edge Your email has been sent Network quality of service is the measurement of the overall performance of a network, and the purpose of QoS is to have the ...

Virtual LANs (VLANs) allow the segmentation of a physical network into multiple logical networks. VLAN trunking is the process of transporting multiple VLANs over a single network link—typically ...

There are four key steps to deploying QoS for VoIP, and if you don’t follow them all, your VoIP implementation will not live up to its full potential. There’s a lot more to implementing QoS than just ...

The cliche “everything is relative” is certainly accurate when used to sum up the essence of QoS schemes. After all, our industry’s quest for QoS is all about determining how to balance the demands of ...