QoS: Quality of Service

Quality of service (QoS) refers to a network’s ability to achieve maximum bandwidth and deal with other network performance elements like latency, error rate and uptime.

Quality of service also involves controlling and managing network resources by setting priorities for specific types of data (video, audio, files) on the network.

QoS is exclusively applied to network traffic generated for video on demand, IPTV, VoIP, streaming media, videoconferencing and online gaming.