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Quality of Service (QoS)
This chapter covers the following topics:
Overview of Policy-Based Quality of Service on page 9-2
Applications and Types of QoS on page 9-3
Assigning QoS Attributes on page 9-5
QoS Profiles on page 9-6
Traffic Groupings and Creating a QoS Policy on page 9-8
IP-Based Traffic Groupings on page 9-10
MAC-Based Traffic Groupings on page 9-10
Explicit Class of Service (802.1p and DiffServ) Traffic Groupings on page 9-12
Physical and Logical Groupings on page 9-20
Verifying Configuration and Performance on page 9-21
Modifying a QoS Policy on page 9-23
Intra-Subnet QoS on page 9-24
Dynamic Link Context System on page 9-25
Policy-Based Quality of Service (QoS) is a feature of ExtremeWare and the Extreme
switch architecture that allows you to specify different service levels for traffic
traversing the switch. Policy-Based QoS is an effective control mechanism for networks
that have heterogeneous traffic patterns. Using Policy-Based QoS, you can specify the
service level that a particular traffic type receives.