QoS Design Guidelines

This section reviews, in a design context, many of the concepts presented earlier in these Quick Reference Sheets. For example, voice, data, and video applications each have unique design guidelines. These guidelines are examined in this section.

Classification Review

As a review, recall how you performed classification and marking early on in these Quick Reference Sheets. Using the three-step MQC approach, you saw how to classify traffic by such characteristics as an incoming interface, an access-list match, or an NBAR. The Network Based Application Recognition (NBAR) classification mechanism offered the most granular classification, because NBAR can look beyond Layer 3 or Layer 4 information, all the way up to Layer 7. ...

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