Download the LiveAction 14-Day Trial from http://liveaction.com/download-qos/ Applications running on today’s networks are mission critical or latency sensitive. So enterprises need to adopt QoS or Quality of Service that control how traffic is prioritized and handled during congestion. Take a look at this presentation to understand why LiveAction's QoS solution is easy to deploy, and how it provides powerful monitoring and analytics tools plus quick diagnosis of application performance issues through visual displays.

1. USING QoS TO SOLVE APPLICATION PERFORMANCE PROBLEMS
ACROSS THE WAN
CONTROL
AUTOMATION
VISUALIZATION
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2. Using QoS to Solve Application Performance
Problems Across the WAN
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Today’s
IT Challenges
Key
Considerations
Available
Solutions

3. Today’s IT Challenges
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Quality of Service
(QoS)
Troubleshooting Cisco Solutions Thousands of Apps Network Outages
Total Cost to
Ownership (TCO)
 Poor voice and
video over IP
 Poor application
performance
 Underperforming
mission-critical
apps (ERP)
 Challenges of multi-
site enterprises
using constrained
WAN links
 90% of trouble-
shooting time is
spent identifying
(not fixing) the
problem
 QoS is built into
Cisco routers and
switches
 Difficult to learn
and deploy
 Time consuming
and error-prone CLI
 Business-critical
apps
 Latency-sensitive
apps like voice
 Bandwidth-hungry
recreational apps
 Apps that IT didn’t
authorize
 Reduce/eliminate
service interruptions
 Human
configuration errors
cause 50%-80% of all
network outages
 How do all of these
challenges impact
TCO?

4. Drilling Down on QoS
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QoS management is the collection of mechanisms that control how
traffic is prioritized and handled during congestion
All these QoS tools rely on traffic classification:
the better the classification, the better the QoS
Most common
QoS tools Packets Packets
Classify
LFI
Priority Queue
Class Based Queue
Class Based Queue
Class Based Queue
Default
Queue
Setting
Mark Shape Police WRED

5. Drilling Down on QoS
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To make the process as manageable as possible,
QoS deployments need to take into account:
 QoS needs of the organization
 Current network architecture
 Applications used by the staff
 Traffic running over the network
 QoS capabilities available in the network devices
With QoS Without QoS
 Visibility and analysis
 Protection of real-time and
high priority data applications
 Free for all
 No protection of critical data,
voice or video

6. Key Considerations
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Ease of use
Look for these capabilities:
 Visual Visio-like diagrams but with real-
time and historical flows for quick
diagnosis of performance issues
 Full visibility into devices and policies

7. Key Considerations
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Flexibility
Look for these capabilities:
Copy and deploy an existing policy to multiple network devices
Deploy cloud-based and on-premise business applications
Work in MPLS, DMVPN, Performance Routing (PfR) and
Intelligent WAN environments
Accommodate on-the-fly QoS policy adjustments

8. Key Considerations
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Power of solution
Look for these capabilities:
Powerful Monitoring Effective Management Scalability
 Deep application awareness
 Comprehensive monitoring and
analysis
 Robust troubleshooting real-time
and historical capabilities
 System intelligence to facilitate
creation and execution of effective
QoS policies
 Instant validation of QoS policy
changes
 Fast resolution of application
performance issues
 Synthetic traffic generation and
analysis for measuring the impact
of QoS policies in a controlled
manner
 Thousands of network devices
and millions of flows per second
 Works with Cisco advanced
technologies

9. Finding the Best Solution
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End-to-end
flow
visualization
for a holistic
view of the
network
Easy to deploy, configure,
monitor and analyze - with Cisco
advanced technologies such as
QoS, Medianet, PfR, AVC, AX,
NetFlow and FnF
Quick
diagnosis of
application
performance
issues through
visual displays
What to look for to find the best, most cost-effective solution
QoS graphical
control to
troubleshoot
and fix issues
Instant validation
of QoS policy
changes

10. LiveAction’s Solution Delivers on All Fronts
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End-to-end
flow
visualization
for a holistic
view of the
network
Easy to deploy, configure,
monitor and analyze - with Cisco
advanced technologies such as
QoS, Medianet, PfR, AVC, AX,
NetFlow and FnF
Quick
diagnosis of
application
performance
issues through
visual displays
QoS graphical
control to
troubleshoot
and fix issues
Instant validation
of QoS policy
changes

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