QOS over MPLS – the Complete Story MPLS中的服务质量(QoS)综述.pdfVIP

QOS over MPLS – the Complete Story John Bartlett and Rebecca Wetzel BCR Volume 36, Number 2 February 2006 As service providers entice growing numbers of enterprise chose MPLS so that voice and video enterprises to MPLS-based service offerings, could be added to the network without sacrificing customers need to know that MPLS alone cannot the performance of critical applications. “We provide a complete, end-to-end quality of service wanted the ability to add voice and video with (QOS). The complete QOS “story” has four guarantees,” he added, “and [we wanted] also to “chapters,” covering traffic classification, traffic outsource the management function.” prioritization, bandwidth management, and traffic monitoring. An implementation that excludes any Either before or after their move to MPLS, each of of these cannot provide optimal performance - and the network planners and managers we talked with because no single vendor can deliver all four realized that they must implement all four of the chapters, complete QOS-over-MPLS solutions QOS aspects that we identified above (see sidebar: require multiple vendors. Review of Existing Solutions) NetForecast has researched enterprise QOS-over- Chapter One: Traffic Classification MPLS solution requirements and recently interviewed several enterprise users to learn how Step one for any QOS solution is to classify they have been faring in implementing solutions. application traffic so it can be treated differently We offer the following insight and guidance to depending on its relative importance. Traffic is help enterprises write their own successful QOS- classified by identifying and