Implementing Quality of Service

QoS determines how a flow will be treated as it transits the link. To determine how a flow should be treated, you must first understand the characteristics of the flows on your network, and secondly, you must identify these flows in a way that QoS can recognize. In this sense, QoS is the third step in a three step process. The three steps Extreme Networks recommends for configuring QoS are:

• Understand your network flows. The S- and K-Series support NetFlow. See NetFlow Configuration for NetFlow configuration details.
• Associate the flows on your network with a well defined role using Extreme Networks policy. See Policy Configuration for policy configuration details.
• Configure the appropriate link behavior for that role by associating the role with a QoS configuration.