Quality of Service in a Cisco Networking Environment

Quality of Service is expected to become the most important communications topic in the new millennium.<br /> <br /> The acclaimed author, Gilbert Held, provides a comprehensive guide to obtaining a Quality of Service (QoS) capability in a Cisco hardware environment.<br /> <br /> Today there are many aspects of the QoS ‘puzzle’ and Cisco is providing users with a wide range of solutions. Some solutions are well known but do not scale for use on the Internet or on a large corporate Intranet. Other solutions must be used in conjunction with different schemes for true end-to-end QoS. That is where this book comes in, providing a guide to the various pieces of the QoS puzzle.<br /> <br /> Quality of Service in a Cisco Networking Environment:<br /> * Is a one-stop location to obtain complete and concise information about achieving QoS for applications transported over local and wireless area networks.<br /> <br /> * Provides a tutorial on the operation of different QoS techniques (IEEE 802.1p, 802.1Q, Differentiated Services, and RSVP).<br /> <br /> * Describes Cisco Router QoS and Switch QoS commands.<br /> <br /> * Gives examples of QoS configurations.<br /> <br /> * Includes a series of easy to implement IP and Frame Relay traffic enhancement techniques.<br /> Written for the local and wide area network planners and managers, local area network administrators and router administrators, every chapter initially guides the reader through the theory behind a specific QoS technique. This information is then followed with a series of Cisco command examples tailored to a specific QoS technique. Readers learn both how a QoS technique operates and how to place it into effect in a Cisco environment.