Measure and Evaluate the Results of Quality of Service (QoS) Policies

IT organizations implement QoS policies to ensure that mission-critical or Gold Class applications receive the highest priority when they need to access network resources. At a time when IT departments are repeatedly asked to do more with less, provisioning more bandwidth is not always the right solution for network bottlenecks. QoS policies can be a very effective way to fully utilize expensive WAN links and contain costs while maintaining acceptable levels of service for important applications and users.

NetQoS enables you to determine the best use of QoS policies by identifying the network segments that will benefit most, and by measuring the impact of QoS implementations to verify that they are producing the desired results. NetQoS solutions provide answers to the critical questions that affect QoS, such as: What is the composition of traffic on each network link? Which hosts, conversations, and protocols are consuming the most bandwidth? Which users are experiencing poor application performance? Where is most of the latency occurring, and why? Are our QoS policies helping us provide consistent, acceptable end-user response times for our critical applications?

By gaining global visibility into the composition, volume, and performance of all network traffic before and after QoS and other configuration changes, IT professionals are armed with the information they need to optimize networks for application performance while avoiding unnecessary infrastructure costs and minimizing the risks associated with change.

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