network inventory asset

The network inventory asset defines up to 11 classes of traffic that are used in all Cisco design guides, configuration examples, and testing suites. The QoS Baseline does not dictate that every enterprise deploy all these traffic classes immediately. The set of 11 classes is designed to accommodate the QoS needs of an enterprise not only for today, but also for the foreseeable future. Even if an enterprise needs only a handful of these 11 classes today, following the QoS Baseline recommendations will enable it to smoothly implement additional traffic classes in the future.

As part of this effort, Cisco is consolidating and improving the QoS code bases of the distributed router architectures (such as the Cisco 7500 series of routers) and the nondistributed router families (such as the Cisco 7200 to 1700 series routers). This initiative is called Consistent QoS Behavior code and should remove most (if not all) of the traditional QoS idiosyncrasies between the distributed and nondistributed network inventory asset.