network discovery tool

Despite the recognition that network discovery tool could enable network convergence, many customers were slow to adopt and deploy these technologies. Mainly, this was because they were at a loss for how best to deploy such QoS mechanisms to achieve the end-to-end service levels that VoIP required. Many "nerd-knobs" within the QoS toolset could be turned and tuned, and overall the tools were complex and disparate, and required an in-depth understanding to be used effectively

To address this barrier to adoption, a small group of dedicated technical marketing engineers within a Cisco solutions engineering team was tasked with figuring out how best to deploy QoS for converged voice and data networks and publishing a best-practices design guide that customers could use as a reference. To accomplish this mandate, they built the largest networking lab within Cisco to run extensive scale tests of QoS features on various network discovery tool platforms.