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4.9 Quality of Service
4.9.1 Understanding
QoS
Quality of Service (QoS) is an advanced traffic prioritization feature that allows you to establish control over network traffic. QoS
enables you to assign various grades of network service to different types of traffic, such as multi-media, video, protocol-specific,
time critical, and file-backup traffic.
QoS reduces bandwidth limitations, delay, loss, and jitter. It also provides increased reliability for delivery of your data and allows
you to prioritize certain applications across your network. You can define exactly how you want the switch to treat selected
applications and types of traffic. You can use QoS on your system to:
Control a wide variety of network traffic by:
Classifying traffic based on packet attributes.
Assigning priorities to traffic (for example, to set higher priorities to time-critical or business-critical applications).
Applying security policy through traffic filtering.
Provide predictable throughput for multimedia applications such as video conferencing or voice over IP by minimizing delay
and jitter.
Improve performance for specific types of traffic and preserve performance as the amount of traffic grows.
Reduce the need to constantly add bandwidth to the network.
Manage network congestion.
QoS Terminology
Classifier
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classifies the traffic on the network. Traffic classifications are determined by protocol, application, source,
destination, and so on. You can create and modify classifications. The Switch then groups classified traffic in order to
schedule them with the appropriate service level.
DiffServ Code Point (DSCP)
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is the traffic prioritization bits within an IP header that are encoded by certain applications
and/or devices to indicate the level of service required by the packet across a network.
Service Level
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defines the priority that will be given to a set of classified traffic. You can create and modify service levels.
Policy
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comprises a set of “rules” that are applied to a network so that a network meets the needs of the business. That is,
traffic can be prioritized across a network according to its importance to that particular business type.
QoS Profile
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consists of multiple sets of rules (classifier plus service level combinations). The QoS profile is assigned to a
port(s).
Rules
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comprises a service level and a classifier to define how the Switch will treat certain types of traffic. Rules are
associated with a QoS Profile (see above).
To implement QoS on your network, you need to carry out the following actions:
1.
Define a service level to determine the priority that will be applied to traffic.
2.
Apply a classifier to determine how the incoming traffic will be classified and thus treated by the Switch.
Summary of Contents for NS3702-24P-4S
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Page 119: ...119 Figure 4 6 4 VLAN Membership Status for Static User Page Screenshot ...
Page 124: ...124 Figure 4 6 6 Private VLAN Membership Configuration page screenshot ...
Page 140: ...140 Figure 4 6 21 Group Name to VLAN Mapping Table Page Screenshot ...
Page 164: ...164 Figure 4 8 2 Multicast Flooding ...
Page 184: ...184 Figure 4 8 15 MLD Snooping Port Group Filtering Configuration Page Screenshot ...
Page 204: ...204 Figure 4 9 6 QoS Egress Port Tag Remarking Page Screenshot ...
Page 209: ...209 QoS Class QoS Class value can be any of 0 7 DPL Drop Precedence Level 0 1 ...
Page 251: ...251 Figure 4 11 3 Authentication Method Configuration Page Screenshot ...
Page 286: ...286 Figure 4 11 11 RADIUS Server Configuration Screenshot ...
Page 290: ...290 Figure 4 11 17 Add User Properties Screen Figure 4 11 18 Add User Properties Screen ...
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