Quality of Service and Policy-based Networking
Voice, data, and video convergence onto high-speed IP networks will succeed or fail based on the IP community's ability to implement Quality of Service (QoS) in a manageable, scalable fashion - that's what policy-based networking is all about. Check out M5 Systems co-founder Tom Stenson's feature article The QoS Quagmire in the September 6 issue of Network World Magazine.