Cisco Service Template Reference

These topics describe the Cisco service templates provided with QPM-COPS.

BasicMissionCritical

This service template provides QoS differentiation between Best Effort and Mission Critical traffic.

BasicVoiceVideo

This service template provides QoS differentiation between Best Effort and Real Time traffic. Real time video and voice traffic requires low and constant network delay.

This service template provides QoS differentiation in an integrated data, voice, and video (AVVID) environment. Four different QoS classes are provided: Best Effort, Mission Critical, Real Time and Network Control. Real Time class serves real time video and voice traffic. Two levels of drop precedence are provided for Mission Critical traffic. Mission Critical traffic sent at a rate higher than the rate profile enforced by the policy, is reclassified to the Mission Critical Excess class, which has higher drop precedence. On congested links, Mission Critical Excess class packets will have a higher probability of being discarded. If no congestion is encountered, the rate of the Mission Critical traffic and its excess traffic is bounded only by the maximal link speeds. Network Control class protects flows required for network operation and stability.

Adv2LevelAVVID

This service template provides QoS differentiation in an integrated data, voice and video (AVVID) environment. Five different QoS classes are provided: Best Effort, Protected, Mission Critical, Real Time and Network Control. Two levels of drop precedence are provided for Mission Critical traffic. Mission Critical traffic sent at a rate higher than the rate profile enforced by the policy, is reclassified to the Mission Critical Excess class, which has higher drop precedence. On congested links, Mission Critical Excess class packets will have a higher probability of being discarded. If no congestion is encountered, the rate of the Mission Critical traffic and its excess traffic is bounded only by the maximal link speeds. Protected class can be used as another separate class for Mission Critical traffic, or backup processes that need further isolation. This class can be used also for separating "less than best effort" background traffic that should not interfere with other classes of traffic. Network Control class protects flows required for network operation and stability.

Adv2LevelMissionCritical

This service template provides differentiation between Best Effort, Mission Critical, Protected and Network Control traffic. Two levels of drop precedence are provided for Mission Critical traffic. Mission Critical traffic sent at a rate higher than the rate profile enforced by the policy, is reclassified to the Mission Critical Excess class, which has higher drop precedence. On congested links, Mission Critical Excess class packets will have a higher probability of being discarded. If no congestion is encountered, the rate of the Mission Critical traffic and its excess traffic is bounded only by the maximal link speeds. Protected class can be used as another separate class for Mission Critical traffic or backup processes that need further isolation. This class can be used also for separating "less than best effort" background traffic that should not interfere with other classes of traffic. Network Control class protects flows required for network operation and stability.

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