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Cisco Small Business 300 Series Managed Switch Administration Guide 246
Configuring Quality of Service
The Quality of Service feature is applied throughout the network to ensure that
network traffic is prioritized according to required criteria and the desired traffic
receives preferential treatment.
This chapter contains the following topics:
• QoS Features and Components
• Configuring QoS
• QoS Basic Mode
• QoS Advanced Mode
• Managing QoS Statistics
QoS Features and Components
The QoS feature is used to optimize network performance.
QoS provides the following:
• Classification of incoming traffic to traffic classes, based on attributes,
including:
- Device Configuration
- Ingress interface
- Packet content
- Combination of these attributes