network manage software

A series of internal network manage software initiatives, dubbed Technology Baselines, was launched to address the inconsistency of which features exist on which platforms. Specific to QoS, the QoS Baseline is a strategic internal document written by Cisco's most qualified QoS experts, each of whom had contributed to multiple QoS RFCs and so was best qualified to interpret these standards in additional detail

In part, the Cisco QoS Baseline is aimed at producing higher-quality new products, predictable QoS feature sets across products, and improved consistency of QoS features across platforms. To that end, it provides engineers who are developing new products with a reference list of QoS features that they must include and test. For existing platforms, it provides a gap analysis that is used to steer network manage software to achieve QoS baseline compliance