Chapter 6. Quality of Service with MPLS TE
Quality of service (QoS) and MPLS are, at a political level, similar. They're both technologies that have been gaining popularity in recent years. They both seem to be technologies that you either love or hate—some people are huge QoS fans, and others can't stand it. The same is true of MPLS—some people like it, and others don't.
At a technical level, though, QoS and MPLS are very different.
QoS is an umbrella term that covers network performance characteristics. As discussed in Chapter 1, “Understanding Traffic Engineering with MPLS,” QoS has two parts:
Finding a path through your network that can provide the service you offer
Enforcing that service
The acronym QoS in respect to IP first showed up in ...
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