hardware inventory management

Hardware inventory management requires 150-ms one-way, end-to-end (mouth-to-ear) delay; 30 ms of one-way jitter; and no more than 1 percent packet loss. Voice should receive strict-priority servicing, and the amount of priority bandwidth assigned for it should take into account the VoIP codec; the packetization rate; IP, UDP, and RTP headers (compressed or not); and Layer 2 overhead. Additionally, provisioning QoS for IP Telephony requires that a minimal amount of guaranteed bandwidth be allocated to Call-Signaling traffic

Data comes all shapes and sizes but generally can be classified into four main classes: Best-Effort (the default class), Bulk Data (noninteractive background flows), Transactional/Interactive (interactive, foreground flows), and Mission-Critical Data. Mission-Critical Data applications are locally defined, meaning that each organization must determine the select few Transactional Data applications that contribute the most significantly to its overall hardware inventory management