QoS Best Practices

This section is not last discuss about QoS, but the summary of Classification part, even actually there is one section is part of classification, that is QoS Policy Propagation via BGP, but I will explain later.

Previous days ago, I posted about Classification Overview. Please find the Best Practices of QoS here

• For enterprise networks define traffic classes example: voice, videoconferencing, bulk data & mission-critical data
• Do classify and mark traffic as close to the source as possible
• Networks must provide secure, predictable, measurable and sometimes guaranteed services
• Achieve the required QoS by managing the delay, delay variation (jitter), bandwidth and packet-loss parameters on a network
• Use Cisco NBAR to discover the application (traffic type) on the network

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