Quality of Service (QoS)

• The description or measurement of the overall performance of a service, such as a computer network or a cloud computing service, particularly the performance seen by the users of the network.

• A method of prioritizing network traffic. The Cisco radio frequency (RF) Mesh network uses standard Internet Protocol (IP)-based QoS to support multiple types of data traffic flows. Data packets are marked and prioritized enabling mission critical applications to be prioritized over data collection or firmware downloads. In the OpenWay SR 5.0 solution, an administrator uses QoS to set traffic priority during installation of the OpenWay Collection Engine.