Inside the Internet's reSerVation Protocol

Resource Reservation Setup Protocol (RSVP) is the Internet protocol being developed so that the Internet can deliver quality of service (QoS), prioritising data and reserving it, if necessary, to meet a schedule. Now, from the author team that developed the RSVP PC implementation adopted by Microsoft for Windows NT and Windows, comes this book, which demystifies RSVP and the Internet Services model for QoS. Providing readers with a detailed description of the RSVP protocol now that it is ready for mainstream use, it looks at the application programme interface (API) crucial for application developers, and shows IT managers and service providers how they can best deploy the technology.