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Quality of Service

A networking feature that prioritizes critical traffic for better performance.

General

What Quality of Service means

QoS (Quality of Service) manages network resources by prioritizing specific types of traffic — for example, giving VoIP or video conferencing packets precedence over general web traffic. MSPs configure QoS to ensure stable call quality, reduce lag, and maintain performance consistency across business networks, especially when bandwidth is limited. Learn more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality_of_service

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