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Centralize Quality of Service Management
Centralized management of Quality of Service (QoS) policy creation, validation, deployment, and monitoring can help you provide secure and predictable delivery of business applications such as video, voice over IP (VoIP), and critical data center applications.Cisco Quality of Service Policy Manager (QPM) provides centralized management of QoS. It provides comprehensive QoS provisioning and monitoring capabilities so that network administrators can manage and fine-tune the delay, delay variation (jitter), bandwidth, and packet loss parameters required for successful deployment and optimal utilization of network resources.
QPM Provisioning Capabilities
- Significantly reduce cost and time required for efficient design and deployment of QoS across thousands of devices and hundreds of thousands of interfaces, on a broad range of Cisco routers and switches
- Alleviate the need for scarce expertise by abstracting the complexity of QoS technology and automating the process of configuring QoS
- Provide ongoing visibility into the performance of converged network applications
QPM Monitoring Capabilities
- Provide ongoing visibility into the performance of converged network applications
- Ensure compliance of applications with QoS
- Alert user of QoS violations such as user-defined threshold excesses
- Analyze impact of applied QoS policies on Cisco Unified Communications
New Features
- Significant platform upgrades (new Solaris version, Windows 2003, CommonServices 3.0.5, import from CiscoWorks Device Credential Repository (DCR), compatibility with CiscoWorks LAN Management Solution (LMS) 2.5.1/2.6)
- Availability of Monitoring Only mode
- Threshold setting and threshold violation alerting capabilities
- New QoS features: hierarchical QoS, network-based application recognition packet description language module (NBAR PDLM), virtual channel (VC) bundle, and time-based access control list (ACL)
- Simplified high-level workflows for network selection, QoS provisioning, QoS monitoring, and reporting
- Up-to-date, comprehensive device/OS upgrade support package, including support of all QoS command line interface (CLI) of all Cisco routers except for high end and all Cisco Catalyst switches at the current OS level
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