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Article: QoS and DQoS: spinach before dessert. (Translation Please).(Quality of service)(Column)
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- November 11, 2002
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Sometimes, technology is like green leafy vegetables--spinach, for example. Some find it distasteful, yet it's crammed with the minerals and healthful stuff that make your insides work better.
Where I grew up, you had to eat it before you could have dessert.
Two acronyms, "QoS" and "D-QoS," are the green leafy vegetables of this week's technology translation. Neither technique is the most comprehensible in the world; both make broadband Internet and voice-over-Internet protocol (respectively) work better. And you can't easily get to the sweetness of new, revenue-bearing services without them.
"QoS" stands for "quality of service." Before its ...