The Windows Vista developer platform for network Quality of Service (QoS) consists of a user-mode application programming interface (API), available from Qos2.h and qwave.dll, and a kernel-mode packet scheduler (Pacer.sys), which manages QoS flows created by using the user-mode API.
The Windows Vista QoS API supports the differentiated services discipline in that:
- Layer 3 Differentiated Service Code Points (DSCPs) can be set in the IPv4/IPv6 packet header
- Layer 2 802.1p tags can be added to the Ethernet frame header
- Send-rate throttling can be applied
This API is applied at a network socket level. Multimedia scenarios on Windows-based clients (not servers) are enabled by using this platform to provide end-to-end bandwidth estimation and congestion detection for network IP traffic that uses either TCP or UDP.
Managed Entities
The following is a list of the managed entities that are included in this managed entity:
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Policy-based Quality of Service (QoS)
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Quality of Service (QoS) in Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista helps to reduce network congestion and optimize bandwidth by providing centralized management of traffic sent by network hosts.
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