Quality of service (QoS) is an essential element in the enterprise transport infrastructure. The concept of QoS is loosely defined across different
enterprise service management layers such that it can be used to evaluate and control the performance of a link, a domain
sub-network, or the entire network. There are three aspects of QoS management: control, monitoring, and adjustment. QoS control
includes planning and configuring performance attributes such as bandwidth, delay, loss, and traffic priority. An effective
QoS planning and configuration function should include a policy registry and enforcement engine leveraging on open interfaces
for policy descriptions. The QoS policies dictate the behaviors of the adjustment function. QoS monitoring works hand-in-hand
with service monitoring functions depicted in chapter 6 to provide quality indicators of the managed services. The collected
and organized indicators permit the adjustment function to arrange different amount of traffic being injected into the network
in accordance with the QoS classes. The adjustment function drives vendor specific access facilities for access control in
responding to the policy rules.