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Configuring QoS
Have you ever participated in a long-distance phone call that involved a satellite connection? The
conversation might be interrupted with brief, but perceptible, gaps at odd intervals. Those gaps are the
time, called the latency, between the arrival of packets being transmitted over the network. Some network
traffic, such as voice and video, cannot tolerate long latency times. Quality of service (QoS) is a feature
that lets you give priority to critical traffic, prevent bandwidth hogging, and manage network bottlenecks
to prevent packet drops.
Note
For the ASASM, we suggest performing QoS on the switch instead of the ASASM. Switches have more
capability in this area.
This chapter describes how to apply QoS policies and includes the following sections:
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Information About QoS, page 1-1
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Licensing Requirements for QoS, page 1-5
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Guidelines and Limitations, page 1-5
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Feature History for QoS, page 1-19
Information About QoS
You should consider that in an ever-changing network environment, QoS is not a one-time deployment,
but an ongoing, essential part of network design.
This section describes the QoS features supported by the ASA and includes the following topics:
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Supported QoS Features, page 1-2
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What is a Token Bucket?, page 1-2
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Information About Policing, page 1-3
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Information About Priority Queuing, page 1-3
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Information About Traffic Shaping, page 1-4
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Summary of Contents for 5505 - ASA Firewall Edition Bundle
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Page 61: ...P A R T 1 Getting Started with the ASA ...
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Page 219: ...P A R T 2 Configuring High Availability and Scalability ...
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Page 403: ...P A R T 2 Configuring Interfaces ...
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Page 499: ...P A R T 2 Configuring Basic Settings ...
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Page 533: ...P A R T 2 Configuring Objects and Access Lists ...
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Page 601: ...P A R T 2 Configuring IP Routing ...
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Page 745: ...P A R T 2 Configuring Network Address Translation ...
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Page 845: ...P A R T 2 Configuring AAA Servers and the Local Database ...
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Page 981: ...P A R T 2 Configuring Access Control ...
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Page 1061: ...P A R T 2 Configuring Service Policies Using the Modular Policy Framework ...
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Page 1093: ...P A R T 2 Configuring Application Inspection ...
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Page 1191: ...P A R T 2 Configuring Unified Communications ...
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Page 1379: ...P A R T 2 Configuring Advanced Network Protection ...
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Page 1475: ...P A R T 2 Configuring Modules ...
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Page 1549: ...P A R T 2 Configuring VPN ...
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Page 1965: ...P A R T 2 Configuring Logging SNMP and Smart Call Home ...
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