There are a few network situations where QoS appears to be set up correctly, and yet packet loss still occurs. These situations can be mystifying for those who don't understand the behavior of the ...

Based on your feedback requesting what topics you’d like to see addressed in this blog, this is the first in a series of entries addressing Cisco’s Quality of Service (QoS) course, and the ...

The definitive glossary of tech terms specific to "quality of service "(QoS) in the audiovisual, AV/IT industry. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

In QoS Part 1, we covered the high-level goals and concepts of using Quality of Service (QoS) to make sure that the most important network traffic gets through if the network becomes congested. This ...

QoS (Quality of Service) has been talked about for over three decades in the networking world. But as computing and networking industry differences start to blur, and as scale-out architectures are ...

NEW YORK—As broadcasters increasingly move toward IP-based systems within their facilities and for wide area network connections, the ability to prioritize some packets over others is becoming more ...

With network processors unable to handle all the processing requirements of today's system architectures, several key functions have been moved off-chip into separate silicon. Traffic management is ...

Last time, we continued a discussion of what happens in an MPLS network if defined traffic levels are exceeded so that some packets need to be dropped. In particular, we stated that there is a belief ...

Also called "first-come, first served" (FCFS) queuing, FIFO is the simplest queuing method. Packets are placed into a single queue and serviced in the order they were received. Each packet is assigned ...