QoS/CoS in the Internet

• Provide differential traffic handling within the Internet (all at layer 3)

• Started as IntServ, focusing on per-flow QoS support, but has evolved to both IntServ and DiffServ (differential services)

• IntServ continuing focus on per-flow support; Diffserv focusing on class-based QoS (CoS) for aggregates of flows

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