Cisco CiscoWork QoS Policy Manager 4.1.2 User Guide
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Planning for Quality of Service
Effective use of Quality of Service (QoS) capabilities requires careful planning.
Before you deploy QoS to your network, carefully consider the types of
applications used in the network and which QoS techniques might improve the
performance of those applications. Then, use CiscoWorks QoS Policy Manager
(QPM) to create and deploy your QoS policies to the network, and analyze QoS
performance.
Before you deploy QoS to your network, carefully consider the types of
applications used in the network and which QoS techniques might improve the
performance of those applications. Then, use CiscoWorks QoS Policy Manager
(QPM) to create and deploy your QoS policies to the network, and analyze QoS
performance.
The following topics introduce you to QoS concepts and QoS capabilities
supported by QPM:
supported by QPM:
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Planning for QoS Deployment
The process of planning and implementing QoS is cyclical, and requires the
following steps:
following steps:
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Identify the application traffic in your network:
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Identify the applications in the network, and the traffic distribution of
these applications. For example, you might identify the following
applications—SAP (10% of traffic), HTTP (30%), FTP (20%), Voice
over IP (VoIP) (30%), and other applications (10%).
these applications. For example, you might identify the following
applications—SAP (10% of traffic), HTTP (30%), FTP (20%), Voice
over IP (VoIP) (30%), and other applications (10%).
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Identify the business critical applications. In our example these might be
SAP, Intranet HTTP, and VoIP.
SAP, Intranet HTTP, and VoIP.