Priorities Your Network Traffic with Quality Of Service a.k.a QoS
Date: Saturday December 15, 2007Posted in: Server Tech, Technology
Have you heard of QoS? The first time I heard of this terms was about months ago when our company implemented QoS.
At first I didn’t know what its all about on QoS, what I learned from my colleagues is that it will give priority of bandwidth to certain predefine applications over the Corporate network environment; mainly is for those critical production applications, so that the applications traffic will not be affected even when there is a high peak on Corporate network traffic.
Here is the detail explanation from Wiki:
In the fields of packet-switched networks and computer networking, the traffic engineering term Quality of Service, abbrivated QoS, refers to resource reservation control mechanisms rather than the achieved service quality. Quality of Service is the ability to provide different priority to different applications, users, or data flows, or to guarantee a certain level of performance to a data flow. Quality of Service guarantees are important if the network capacity is limited, for example in cellular data communication, especially for real-time streaming multimedia applications, for example voice over IP and IP-TV, since these often require fixed bit rate and are delay sensitive.
I just know that it’s call QoS…but I’m not sure what it stands for until this morning when I read on an article from PC World on how to secure your Wi-Fi network. It’s called Quality of Service in full.
My initial understanding is that this feature only application to those high-standard and expensive Cisco routers in the Corporate, but I was wrong. This article show that we can even apply this cool feature over our house wireless router.
With this, you can give priority to your VOIP application like Skype and set a lower priority for online games.
If you have multiple users running multiple application over your house network which consume a long of network traffic, do give it a try it your router support this feature.
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