>QOS is a wonderful buzzword which is actually attached to a useful
>service.
>
>It basically means you can allocate certain protocols/services guaranteed
>bandwidth on your net link - for example, you can give ftp a guaranteed,
>say, 15k of your 33k6 connection to the net if it needs it - while there's
>an ftp session running, it gets that bandwidth, everything else has to
>throttle down.
>
>It began in ATM, but it's spreading to other things now.
Not just bandwidth but also all relevant parameters, e.g. latency.
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