inventory assets

The richness of the inventory assets allows for a myriad of QoS design and deployment options. However, a few succinct design principles can help simplify strategic QoS designs and lead to an expedited, cohesive, and holistic end-to-end deployment. Some of these design principles are summarized here; others, which are LAN-, WAN- or VPN-specific, are covered in detail in their respective design chapters

A good place to begin is to decide which comes first: the cart or the horse. The horse, in this context, serves to pull the cart and is the enabler for this objective. Similarly, QoS technologies are simply the enablers to organizational objectives. Therefore, the way to begin a QoS deployment is not by glossing over the QoS toolset and picking a la carte tools to deploy. In other words, do not enable QoS features simply because they exist. Instead, start from a high level and clearly define the inventory assets