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Article: Packeteer, Microsoft team on QoS interfaces.(Company Business and Marketing)
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- Network World
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- May 29, 2000
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Microsoft is finally starting to get some support from network hardware vendors for the quality-of-service (QoS) interfaces it has built into Windows 2000.
The interfaces will allow applications to request a certain level of bandwidth from the network, therefore shaping traffic and giving more important applications the service they need to run efficiently. However, critics say that QoS controlled by applications is a Pandora's box.
Packeteer, which develops a family of application-level traffic management products under the name PacketShaper, recently announced it is adding support for the QoS signaling API that is available in Win 2000.
The ...