Cisco Catalyst QoS--Quality of Service in Campus Networks

Author: Flanagan [USA], Yin Min, Zhang Wei (Translation)
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Publish Date: 2004-11-01
Features: This book features:
● Research on various QoS components, including congestion management, congestion avoidance, shaping, monitoring/access control, and signaling. Link efficiency methods, classification, and marking.
● Mapping specific CoS values to various queues and maintaining CoS values using 802.1q tagging on Cisco Catalyst 2900XL, 3500XL, and Catalyst 4000 switches, as well as the 2948G/2980G CatOS series.
● Learning classification and rewrite capabilities, as well as queue scheduling in Cisco Catalyst 5000.
● Implementing ACL, ACP, ACE, and low-latency queues in Cisco Catalyst 2950 and 3550 series switches.
● Understanding classification, monitoring, and scheduling capabilities in Catalyst 4000 and 4500 IOS series switches.
● Configuring QoS in Catalyst 6500 series switches in hybrid and native modes.
● Utilizing Layer 3 QoS to classify various service levels for Catalyst 6500 MSFC and FlexWAN.
● Understanding how to implement QoS in campus network design through end-to-end case studies.
This book is a specialized guide on applying QoS in campus network environments. It provides readers with insights into the QoS operations of widely used devices (Cisco Catalyst series switches) in LANs. Based on the author's extensive experience in Cisco supporting Catalyst switch deployment and QoS, this book presents QoS from a campus LAN perspective. It also explains why QoS is crucial for implementing voice, video, and other latency-sensitive applications in this environment to achieve more deterministic behavior for data flows.
Through architectural overviews, configuration examples, real-world case studies, and summaries of common pitfalls, the book helps readers understand how QoS works, the different components involved in successful QoS implementation, and how QoS is implemented across various Cisco Catalyst platforms to ensure truly successful end-to-end QoS applications.
This book is specifically dedicated to Cisco Catalyst series switches and addresses the issue of applying Quality of Service (QoS) in campus network environments. It is divided into two parts: Basic QoS Concepts and Advanced QoS Concepts, consisting of 10 chapters, including:
- Overview of Quality of Service
- End-to-End QoS
- Overview of QoS Support on the Catalyst Platform
- QoS Support in the Catalyst 5000 Series Switches
- Introduction to Modular Command-Line Interface for Quality of Service
- QoS Features Available in the Catalyst 2950 and 3550 Series Switches
- QoS Features Available in the Catalyst 4000 IOS and Catalyst G-L3 Series Switches
- QoS Support in the Catalyst 6500 Series Switches
- QoS Support in the Catalyst 6500 MSFC and FlexWAN
- Study of QoS Issues in End-to-End Systems
This book is intended for network engineers using Catalyst switches and technical personnel who wish to understand the QoS capabilities offered by such switches.