Total QoS for engineers

Description

An advanced technical hands on course focusing on
Quality of Service issues in IP networks.

What will you learn

Total QoS training course details

Network administrators.
Network operators.

TCP/IP Foundation for engineers

3 days

QoS and CoS, throwing bandwidth at the problem,
Best effort services, Differentiated services,
Integrated services, guarantees, the need for QoS,
IETF working groups.

Video, Voice, other applications, Jitter, delay,
packet loss. Flows, per flow and per aggregate
QoS, Stateful vs. stateless QoS, applications vs.
network QoS.

The TOS field and precedence, the obsolete
OSPF use of the TOS field, TCP congestion
avoidance.

Where to use queuing, FIFO, Priority queuing,
Custom queuing, Weighted Fair Queuing,
CBWFQ, PQWFQ, LLQ, RED and WRED.

Architecture, DSCP, CU, packet classification and
marking, meters and conditioners, Bandwidth
brokers and COPS, Per Hop Behaviours, best
effort PHB, Assured Forwarding PHB, Expedited
forwarding PHB, Network Based Application
Recognition (NBAR).

Fragmentation and interleaving, compression
(codecs, MPEG formats, header compression…),
802.1p, Subnet bandwidth management,
Bandwidth allocators and requestor modules, the
use of MPLS, traffic engineering, traffic shaping.

What is RSVP? architectures, paths, path
messages, reservations, traffic specifications, tear
downs, guaranteed and controlled load, token
buckets, Call Admission Control in voice
networks, gatekeepers.

Policy based routing, the Resource Allocation
Protocol, QoS management tools, baselining
networks, design issues, QoS in IPv6, QoS and multicasts.