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ZDNet Dictionary Definition
- QoS
- Quality Of Service A defined measure of performance in a data communications system. For example, to ensure that real time voice and video are delivered without annoying blips,...
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ZDNet Resources
- An Architectural Model to Provide QoS in a Home Network and Its Evaluation in a Real Testbed
- Home networks are an evolution of office local area networks, answering the need for residential distribution of broadband services. The design of a home network must strive to keep low costs, easy installation and maintenance while at the same time providing a large variety of services, from voice and data...
- Tags: QoS, Network, Home Network, Academy Publisher, Networking
- White papers 2008-06-01
- Podcast: Assuring Voice Quality on IP Telephony Rollouts
- Download this Webcast in podcast format! IP Telephony deployment changes dramatically when the job grows from "a few sites" to a full company-wide rollout across many locations. Achieving a high level of QoS for VoIP across the WAN and Internet often runs counter to the interests and needs of...
- Tags: QoS, Telephony, Webcast, Performance, IP Telephony, IP, Podcasts, Performance Management, VOIP, Telecommunications, Networking, Internet, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- Webcasts 2008-05-15
- Assuring Voice Quality on IP Telephony Rollouts
- IP Telephony deployment changes dramatically when the job grows from "a few sites" to a full company-wide rollout across many locations. Achieving a high level of QoS for VoIP across the WAN and Internet often runs counter to the interests and needs of other network traffic on a converged infrastructure....
- Tags: Deployment, QoS, Telephony, Performance, IP Telephony, IP, VOIP, Performance Management, Telecommunications, Network Technology, Networking, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- Webcasts 2008-05-14
- QoS: What Is It? Why Do We Need It?
- Quality of Service QoS is the ability to treat packets differently as they transit a network device, based on the packet contents. Without QoS, all packets on the network vie for the same pool of resources, and when congestion occurs. QoS can be used to address issues such as...
- Tags: QoS
- White papers 2008-04-11
- Comcast's true speeds and the BitTorrent deal
- Comcast's true speeds and the BitTorrent dealJust A Quick Link CorrectionYou have the link to George Ou's LAN Architect page going to www.lanarchitect.com, which goes to a placeholder "for sale" page with links to house planning. :p The correct address is www.lanarchitect.net.Confusing statement....[i]On the upside we're talking about...
- Tags: BitTorrent deal, true speed, BitTorrent, Comcast Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-04-09
- Impact of QoS on Application Response Time
- Quality of Service QoS recourses to the capability of a network to provide better service to selected network traffic over various technologies. This paper compares three different algorithms for packet queuing using the simulator program OpNet (OpNet is a network simulator, including a library of detailed protocol and application models...
- Tags: Database, QoS, Network, Research India Publications, Tcp/Ip, Networking
- White papers 2008-04-01
- Fixing the unfairness of TCP congestion control
- Fixing the unfairness of TCP congestion controlWowThis puts a whole new perspective on the debate about internet bandwidth throttling by ISPs... I doubt the average user who wants unrestricted internet access is aware of the impact of P2P using multiple streamsRE: Fixing the unfairness of TCP congestion controlWhy wouldn't using...
- Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), TCP/IP, Network technology, NETWORKING, Overall IT, ALTQ, P2P, QoS, TCP Congestion Control, unfairness, IP, TCP, internal IP, bandwidth hog, router
- Discussion threads 2008-03-24
- MySpeed SVR Express (zip)
- MySpeed SVR Express enables you to quickly and easily provide bandwidth testing services on your website, so your visitors can test their connection speeds to your server. Download and upload speeds are accurately measured by timing actual data transfers between your web server and visitors. The consistency of download data...
- Tags: Web Server, QoS, Speed, Visualware, MySpeed SVR Express, Web Servers, Servers, Internet, Hardware
- Software downloads 2008-02-18
- Minipax (exe)
- Minipax is newest generation of Vidosystem Softphone. Our engineer had successfully recode sip engine to produce more robust, small application, better not traversal sip softphone. Features: Customized editable skin interfaces; SIP tunneling supported; Support Audio codec: g729, g723.1, gsm, and g711; QoS - Quality of Service; Transfer call; Forward call;...
- Tags: SIP, QoS, Network Address Translation, Minipax, Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), Networking, Emerging Technologies
- Software downloads 2008-02-06
- An Adaptive Bandwidth Request Mechanism for QoS Enhancement in WiMax Real Time Communication
- The IEEE 802.16 standard for broadband wireless metropolitan area network supports real time and non-real time services. It has a provision to design new packet-scheduling algorithms according to requirements to support Quality of Service QoS for real-time services. Till now published literature on WiMax states that, a Service Station SS...
- Tags: Metropolitan Area Network, Bandwidth, QoS, Larsen & Toubro Infotech, WiMAX, Wireless
- White papers 2008-01-31
- ONT - Optimizing Converged Cisco Networks
- View Available Dates and LocationsThe introduction of new technologies and applications into modern converged networks brings a new set of challenges to the network administrator. In this course, you will learn the characteristics of real-time multimedia traffic, such as voice, and you'll investigate the...
- Tags: QoS, Network, WLAN, Cisco Systems Inc., Wireless LANs, LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Networking
- Training 2008-01-01
- AQOS - Advanced Cisco Quality of Service
- View Available Dates and LocationsThis recently updated 5-day advanced course will teach you to design, configure, test, and troubleshoot end-to-end QoS for enterprise networks based on Cisco best practices. Campus QoS design and WAN QoS design are the two major focus areas of this course. Design considerations...
- Tags: QoS, Cisco Systems Inc., WANs, Networking
- Training 2008-01-01
- CVOICE/QOS Mini Camp
- View Available Dates and LocationsWe have taken our Authorized Cisco Voice over IP and Implementing Cisco Quality of Service courses and combined them into a 5-day Mini Camp. This accelerated learning initiative will not only help you gain solid knowledge and skills, but will drive you toward...
- Tags: Global Knowledge Network Inc., QoS, Network, Cisco Systems Inc., Mini Camp Hours Class, Telecommunications
- Training 2008-01-01
- QOS - Implementing Cisco Quality of Service
- View Available Dates and LocationsThis Authorized Cisco 5-day course gives you the knowledge and skills required to design, implement, and troubleshoot Quality of Service QoS on a network. The course addresses the essential QoS technologies and applications for both Service Provider and Enterprise networks. Successful implementation of...
- Tags: QoS, Phone, Router, Network, Cisco Systems Inc., Networking
- Training 2008-01-01
- QoS-Guaranteed Connectivity in MPLS Networks Based on the TINA Network Resource Architecture
- Next generation networks demand a structured method to deliver QoS assured connectivity in IP networks. The TINA Network Resource Architecture NRA offers a layered framework that allows connections to be managed in a hierarchical manner. Applying the TINA NRA to MPLS networks provides a prospect to offer quality assurances when...
- Tags: QoS, Connectivity, MPLS, Networking, Network Technology
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Neural-Based Quality of Service Estimation in MPLS Routers
- The MultiProtocol Label Switching MPLS is being considered as one possible approach for scalable Quality of Service QoS provisioning in the Internet. As MPLS is standardized by Internet Engineering Task Force IETF and is expected to be implemented in the near future, this paper addresses the issue of QoS estimation...
- Tags: QoS, MPLS, Network Technology, Networking
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Modularizing Variability and Scalability Concerns in Distributed Real-Time and Embedded Systems With Modeling Tools and Component Middleware
- Developing real-time software for large-scale Distributed Real-time and Embedded DRE systems is hard due to variabilities that arise from integration with various subsystems based on different programming languages and hardware, OS, middleware platforms, fine tuning the system to satisfy a range of customer requirements, such as various Quality-of-Service QoS properties,...
- Tags: QoS, Variability, Scalability, Embedded System, Modeling, Model-Driven Development, Middleware, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2008-01-01
- The Bandwidth Exchange Architecture
- New applications for the Internet such as video on demand, grid computing etc. depend on the availability of high bandwidth connections with acceptable Quality of Service QoS. There appears to be, therefore, a requirement for a market where bandwidth-related transactions can take place. For this market to be effective, it...
- Tags: Bandwidth, QoS, Drexel University
- White papers 2008-01-01
- A Reservation Scheme Satisfying Bandwidth QoS Constraints for Ad-Hoc Networks
- Achieving QoS Quality of Service in Mobile Ad-hoc NETworks MANET has been a research topic in the last years. This paper describes a QoS reservation mechanism for Routing Ad-hoc Networks. The mechanism is targeted for sources requiring a bandwidth allocation. The mechanism is based on the knowledge of the bandwidth...
- Tags: Bandwidth, QoS, Network, University Of Antwerp
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Quality of Service Routing in IP Networks
- Multimedia applications such as video-conferencing, telemedicine, HDTV etc. have very stringent Quality of Service QoS demands and require a connection oriented service. For these applications, a path satisfying their requirements in terms of bandwidth, delay, buffer etc. needs to be found. As conventional IP routing is based only on hop...
- Tags: QoS, Network, IP, IP Network
- White papers 2008-01-01
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