QoS – Why it Matters, Why Your Network Can’t Always Deliver it

The lifeblood of virtually every business is its network, and the impact of poor performance can be devastating. Unfortunately, the MPLS, SD-WAN and WAN/TCP optimization solutions that network administrators typically rely on to deliver QoS (Quality of Service) often fall short because they struggle with jitter – real time changes in network traffic flow. Jitter has become common due to the nature of today’s applications and networks, and how they’re deployed and used. When applications run in the cloud, scheduling conflicts between VMs and packet transfer delays caused by hypervisors managing them add further sources of jitter that impact performance.

Network upgrades provide no solution, as the incidence of jitter-induced throughput collapse often increases with more bandwidth. Download this white paper now to understand what MPLS, SD-WAN and WAN/TCP optimization solutions can and can’t do to support QoS, and what the real solutions to jitter and guaranteeing network performance are.