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2. Service quality
The term "quality of service" covers a multitude of notions
• It can refer to any behavior that voluntarily deviates from the default behavior of a network in order to improve its performance, or that of a particular application.
• This can involve providing applications with guarantees on throughput, delay and transmission jitter. These are known as "strict guarantees".
• In general, it's more a matter of defining several traffic classes to which applications will adhere according to their needs.
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Websites
Statistics from the International Telecommunication Union http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/ict/statistics
Standards and norms
- Standard for Information technology – Telecommunications and information exchange between systems – Local and metropolitan area networks – Specific requirements – Part 11: Wireless LAN Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer (PHY) Specifications - IEEE - 2007
- Standard for Local and metropolitan area networks. Media Access Control (MAC) Bridges 802.1D - IEEE - 2004
- Wi-Fi CERTIFIED for WMM – Support...
Directories
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Manufacturers – Suppliers – Distributors (non-exhaustive list)
Cisco Home Networking (Linksys) https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/solutions/enterprise-networks/product-listing.html
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