Evolving UC communications requires increasingly complex quality-of-service strategies. Have we reached the point where QoS is too complex for normal use? Do cloud services over the Internet mean that ...

Since almost all games nowadays are online, it is a sin not to think about optimizing the home network. Almost all routers have either or both NAT Boost and QoS features to aid the user’s game ...

Jeffrey Fritz is director of enterprise network services for the University of California, San Francisco. It pays to understand the realities of implementing quality of service for time-sensitive ...

The goal of network QoS is to ensure that your most critical network traffic gets to where it needs to go with the least amount of delay (or latency in network-speak). More specifically, you can ...

The consolidation of the Internet Protocol as the foundation of most communications services has become indisputable. IP's simplicity, open standards development, relative low cost of deployment and, ...

There are a bunch of excuses for not doing QoS and none of them are valid when examined in detail. I occasionally hear from different sources that QoS is not needed in the LAN. A variety of rationales ...

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The three Quality of Service levels (QoS) offered by MQTT may have been adequate for the original design goals, which was a one-hop connection for remote devices to a central location. But they do not ...