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Cisco RV215W Wireless-N VPN Firewall Administration Guide 114
Configuring Quality of Service (QoS)
The Cisco RV215W lets you configure the following Quality of Service (QoS)
features:
• Configuring Bandwidth Management, page 114
• Configuring QoS Port-Based Settings, page 117
• Configuring CoS Settings, page 118
• Configuring DSCP Settings, page 119
Quality of service (QoS) assigns priority to various applications, users, or data
flows, or guarantees a level of performance to a data flow. These guarantees are
important when the network capacity is insufficient, especially for real-time
streaming multimedia applications such as voice-over-IP, online games and IP-TV,
since these often require fixed bit rate and are delay sensitive, and in networks
where the capacity is a limited resource, for example in cellular data
communication.
Configuring Bandwidth Management
You can use the Cisco RV215W bandwidth management feature to manage the
bandwidth of the traffic flowing from the secure network (LAN) to the insecure
network (WAN).