Windows 2000 Quality of Service

As the traffic on networks continues to increase, the strain on the network infrastructure/resources also increases. In response to this increased demand, Microsoft is building a set of components into Windows 2000 for network bandwidth management - called Quality of Service. These components allow network engineers or administrators to specify how bandwidth will be utilized on a network by defining traffic control patterns for different types of network traffic. With the increased interest in quality of service in networking in general, Windows 2000's Quality of Services will be important as Windows 2000 is implemented.