Quality of Service Guide 17
QoS Policies
In This Chapter
This chapter provides information about Quality of Service (QoS) policy management.
Topics in this chapter include:
• QoS Overview
→ Forwarding Classes
→ Queue Parameters
• QoS Policies
→ Service versus Network QoS
→ QoS Policy Entities
→ Network QoS Policies
→ Network Queue QoS Policies
→ Service Ingress QoS Policies
→ Service Egress QoS Policies
→ Named Pool Policies
→ Slope Policies
→ Scheduler Policies
→ Shared Queues
→ ATM Traffic Descriptor Profiles
→ Configuration Notes
QoS Overview
Routers are designed with Quality of Service (QoS) mechanisms on both ingress and egress
to support multiple customers and multiple services per physical interface. The router has an
extensive and flexible capabilities to classify, police, shape and mark traffic.