George Ou, who has long railed argued against net neutrality schemes that ban QoS and tiered access and in favor of "reasonable network management," offers a different perspective on whether Google's ...

Data prioritization systems can be characterized as implicit or explicit. With implicit QoS, a router or switch automatically allocates service levels based on administrator-specified criteria, such ...

Lag spikes destroy clutch moments, but your router’s hidden QoS settings can dramatically reduce them. While you’ve probably dropped serious cash on that RTX 4090 and lightning-fast SSD, your network ...

In the new converged network world, achieving true quality of service is our goal. THINK BACK TO when you were in third grade and class was dismissed for recess. Would the teacher tolerate a mad ...

Jeffrey Fritz is director of enterprise network services for the University of California, San Francisco. Your agency’s network may have been designed to support only best-effort data applications, ...

Small businesses converging voice, video and data traffic sometimes end up with haunted networks, but you can exorcise the demons. Affordable QoS mechanisms are available to oust the goblins that ...

Quality of Service (QoS) is an indispensable feature of today’s networks. Although QoS has several components, one specific QoS feature, the different service levels for traffic flows provided on an ...

As the initial wave of virtualization projects come to a close, many are finding an odd result. CPU utilization is actually lower than when it started. Now users are looking to pile on more workloads ...

What is 'quality of service?' In basic terms, "quality of service" determines how much bandwidth to give a certain device on your Wi-Fi network. It can prioritize certain devices or programs based on ...

Need to speed up Web apps by 30% in a mixed traffic network? Consider dynamic packet prioritization. The story begins with a mouse named Mickey and an elephant named Dumbo. Oh. Sorry. Wrong audience. ...