Glossary of Terms - Quality of Service

Quality of Service

Glossaries

Term	Definition
Quality of Service	QoS is the ability to provide different priorities to different applications, users, or data flows, or to guarantee a certain level of performance to a data flow. QoS involves prioritisation of Network traffic. QoS can be targeted at a Network interface, toward a given server or router’s performance, or in terms of specific applications. A Network monitoring system must typically be deployed as part of QoS, to ensure that Networks are performing at the desired level.

Term

Definition

QoS is the ability to provide different priorities to different applications, users, or data flows, or to guarantee a certain level of performance to a data flow. QoS involves prioritisation of Network traffic. QoS can be targeted at a Network interface, toward a given server or router’s performance, or in terms of specific applications. A Network monitoring system must typically be deployed as part of QoS, to ensure that Networks are performing at the desired level.