New Training: Configure QoS Policies

In this 9-video skill, CBT Nuggets trainer Knox Hutchinson explains, explores, and configures QoS policies on vEdge devices in an SD-WAN environment. Watch this new networking training.

Watch the full course: Cisco CCNP Implementing Cisco SD-WAN Solutions

This training includes:

• 9 videos
• 46 minutes of training

You’ll learn these topics in this skill:

• Introducing QoS in SD-WAN
• Understand Queues in SD-WAN QoS
• Create Class Maps
• Create ACLs to Mark Traffic
• Create the QoS Map
• Create the QoS Policy
• Push the Policy to vEdges
• Push ACLs and QoS Maps to vEdges
• Summarizing SD-WAN QoS

What is QoS and How Does It Apply in an SD-WAN Architecture?

QoS or Quality of Service is a networking strategy that aims to prioritize the performance of certain network-connected devices over others with the intent to ensure quality service for critical prioritized applications.

Implementing a QoS strategy can be done through applications and appliances that provide control over network transmission, such as setting policy-based routing to achieve granular control over how applications send and receive data within a network.

This added control can provide administrators with the ability to redistribute data transmission in a network and protect certain applications from getting overloaded, which can greatly benefit organizations that are already tight on resources. QoS strategies can also be applied to SD-WAN architecture. As data packets reach the edge of an SD-WAN network, these edge nodes can implement the same type of QoS strategies to determine how and where data is transmitted within the SD-WAN network.