Many of our larger clients were sold a ShoreTel VoIP system from a local phone vendor. This particular vendor did not put the phones on their own VLAN nor did they implement any QoS of any kind. Many ...

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 ...

Enhancements to the operating systems of Cisco switches and routers should make it easier to use data networks for voice calls and multimedia, a move that could cut costs and open the door to new ...

There are four key steps to deploying QoS for VoIP, and if you don’t follow them all, your VoIP implementation will not live up to its full potential. There’s a lot more to implementing QoS than just ...

Most organisations have quality of service (QoS) configured to support their VoIP traffic by now. In many cases, these configurations have been in place for a long time and are based on QoS strategies ...

I have an all cisco network, with cisco wifi running on top of it, using the built in cisco macros for wifi, and switch to switch trunks. On top of that were running a non cisco voip network. The qos ...

Russell Smith is a technology consultant and trainer specializing in management and security of Microsoft server and client technologies. He is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer with more than 15 ...

We’re at an awkward stage as the age of network-streamed multimedia matures. Broadband and cell providers have only recently realized the public’s enormous appetite for streaming video, VoIP, and the ...

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 ...