Chapter13.Quality of Service

Chapter 13. Quality of Service

See the following sections to configure and use these features:

• 13-1: QoS Theory Discusses the various operations and mechanisms that make up quality of service (QoS) as a whole.

• 13-2: QoS Configuration Explains the sequence of steps necessary to configure and monitor QoS on a Catalyst switch.

• 13-3: QoS Data Export Presents the configuration steps needed to gather and send QoS statistics information to external collection devices.

• 13-4: QoS Management Discusses how switches can be configured to support Common Open Policy Service (COPS) and Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP) management protocols.