Following the success of the Internet, over the last five years or so IP has firmly established itself as the networking protocol of choice for a wide range of both traditional and emerging applications. More recently, among business users, there has been much interest in adding real-time applications, including voice over IP (VoIP) and interactive videoconferencing. A major driver for this is the desire to consolidate all applications on to a single, multi-service platform. This chapter focuses specifically on the DiffServ approach to QoS. DiffServ involves the segregation of traffic into a small number of classes, but unlike either the ATM QoS approach, or the IETF IntServ approach, there is no signalling control plane to look at end-to-end behaviour. Instead the approach relies upon per-class capacity planning at each router individually (the so-called per hop mechanism) in order to ensure that, overall, each class gets the standard of service required.
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