Why You Need Quality of Service (QoS)
The networks of yesteryear physically separated voice, video, and data traffic. Literally, these traffic types flowed over separate media (for example, leased lines or fiber-optic cable plants). Today, however, network designers are leveraging the power of the data network to transmit voice and video, thus achieving significant cost savings by reducing equipment, maintenance, and even staffing costs.
The challenge, however, with today’s converged networks is that multiple applications are contending for bandwidth, and some applications such as, voice can be more intolerant of delay (that is, latency) than other applications such as, an FTP file transfer. A lack of bandwidth is the overshadowing issue for ...
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