Quality of Service (QoS)
Overview
FatPipe Quality of Service (QoS) is a FatPipe Feature add on that can help you optimize the efficiency of your network by providing total control of congestion and prioritize data flow up to ten levels.
FatPipe QoS gives you granular control over how IP traffic transmits across your network, and as a result, it helps you control WAN costs. You can reduce bandwidth requirements and bottlenecking issues when you allocate bandwidth to specific business applications and control recreational traffic via FatPipe QoS.
Additionally, FatPipe QoS is combined with link load balancing, which ensures that rules are applied to additional or secondary lines when a failure occurs to your primary WAN line, providing redundancy for your WAN infrastructure data transmissions.
Important traffic passing through the box is categorized into its correct bandwidth, and quality metric. Traffic going to the Internet is sent in contract so that applications like VOIP, video, and other mission critical applications work properly without over-provisioning bandwidth.
How FatPipe Prevents Network Downtime
- Redundant connections mitigate last-mile vulnerabilities
- Diverse access hardware prevents hardware-related outages
- Multiple paths keep applications up during network maintenance
- Freedom to choose routing architecture that work for your business
FatPipe SD-WAN can solve unplanned network downtime.
The growth of network complexity has produced many more potential points of degradation and failure.
Source - Infonetics Research, The Cost of Downtime
Features & Benefits
- Ten levels of traffic priorities
Gives granular control over application and associated bandwidth. Applications can be classified up to ten levels of priorities. The remaining traffic will be best efforts.
- Real Time Optimization
Optimizes real time and standard traffic regardless of application
- Always guarantees the minimum quality and bandwidth you require
Guarantees performance of applications like CRM and thin client by optimizing response times.
- Efficient use of all links
Combined with link load balancing allows the QoS Rules to be implemented across multiple links, adding reliability to the WAN and efficient use of the links
- FatPipe's QoS scales the quality rules to available lines in case of a line failure
Adds redundancy to the WAN infrastructure while maintaining performance for critical applications.
- Controls WAN costs by reducing bandwidth requirements
Allocates bandwidth to business applications and control recreational traffic.
- Easy Installation
Up and running very quickly with very little configuration required.
- Guarantees prioritization of real-time voice/video traffic
VoIP and video traffic will always get higher priority than other types of traffic to ensure quality.
- Guarantees pre-allocated bandwidth for mission Critical data
Customers can allocate fixed amount of bandwidth for different types of traffic - 25% Video, 15% VoIP, 20% database, etc.
- Prevents "over provisioning of network" by solving QoS problems on the customer side
Bandwidth allocation adding to 100% allows efficient utilization of WAN.
- Maximizes utilization of network link
Provides policies for per application and per user. Provides fairness between users and prevents one application or user from congesting a link.
- Throttles traffic to prevent congestion
Improves bandwidth utilization by controlling recreational and malicious traffic.
- Enhances quality of VPN traffic
Gives higher priority to point-to-point traffic than internet traffic to improve inter-office communication.
- Monitors the SLA with your ISP to ensure quality service
Provides latency and bandwidth utilization reports allow for better monitoring of line.