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QoS (Quality of Service)

Advanced Mode

Quality of Service refers to a resource reservation control mechanism, which guarantees a certain quality

to different services on the network� Quality of service guarantees are important if the network capacity

is insufcient, especially for real-time streaming multimedia applications. Quality can be dened as, for

instance, a maintained level of bit rate, low latency, no packet dropping, etc�

The following are the main benets of a QoS-aware network:

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The ability to prioritize trafc and guarantee a certain level of performance to the data ow.

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The ability to control the amount of bandwidth each application may use, and thus provide higher

reliability and stability on the network�

Requirements for QoS

To utilize QoS in a network environment, the following requirements must be met:

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All network switches and routers in the network must include support for QoS�

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The network video devices used in the network must be QoS-enabled�

QoS models

CoS (the VLAN 802�1p model)

IEEE802�1p defines a QoS model at OSI Layer 2 (Data Link Layer), which is called CoS, Class of

Service. It adds a 3-bit value to the VLAN MAC header, which indicates prioritization from 0~7 (Eight

different classes of service are available)� The priority is set up on the network switches, which then use

different queuing disciplines to forward the packets�

Below is the setting column for CoS� Enter the VLAN ID of your switch (0~4095) and choose the priority

for each application (0~7)�

If you assign Video the highest level, the switch will handle video packets rst.

NOTE

► The web browsing may fail if the CoS setting is incorrect.

► Class of Service technologies do not guarantee a level of service in terms of bandwidth and delivery

time; they offer a "best-effort." Users can think of CoS as "coarsely-grained" trafc control and QoS as

"nely-grained" trafc control.

► Though CoS is simple to manage, it lacks scalability and does not offer end-to-end quarantees since it

is based on L2 protocol�

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