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Quality of Service (QoS)
9.1  Overview
This chapter discusses the Device’s QoS screens. Use these screens to set up your Device to use 
QoS for traffic management. 
Quality of Service (QoS) refers to both a network’s ability to deliver data with minimum delay, and 
the networking methods used to control the use of bandwidth. QoS allows the Device to group and 
prioritize application traffic and fine-tune network performance. 
Without QoS, all traffic data is equally likely to be dropped when the network is congested. This can 
cause a reduction in network performance and make the network inadequate for time-critical 
application such as video-on-demand.
The Device assigns each packet a priority and then queues the packet accordingly. Packets assigned 
a high priority are processed more quickly than those with low priority if there is congestion, 
allowing time-sensitive applications to flow more smoothly. Time-sensitive applications include both 
those that require a low level of latency (delay) and a low level of jitter (variations in delay) such as 
Internet gaming, and those for which jitter alone is a problem such as Internet radio or streaming 
video.
Note: The Device has built-in configurations for Voice over IP (IP). The Quality of Service 
(QoS) feature does not affect VoIP traffic. 
• See 
 for advanced technical information on SIP.
9.1.1  What You Can Do in this Chapter
• Use  the  General screen to enable QoS, set the bandwidth, and allow the Device to automatically 
assign priority to upstream traffic according to the IEEE 802.1p priority level, IP precedence or 
packet length (
).
• Use  the  Queue Setup screen to configure QoS queue assignment (
• Use  the  Class Setup screen to set up classifiers to sort traffic into different flows and assign 
priority and define actions to be performed for a classified traffic flow (
).
• Use  the  Monitor screen to view the Device’s QoS-related packet statistics (
9.1.2  What You Need to Know
The following terms and concepts may help as you read this chapter.