Network World: Microsoft pumping QoS standards into Windows 2000

“While quality-of-service mechanisms are typically embedded in
network hardware, Microsoft is doing some slick work to align
Windows 2000 with emerging QoS standards. …provides IT executives
with an operating system-based mechanism for requesting bandwidth
for applications and marking IP packets with priority levels for
movement over LAN and WAN links.

Microsoft’s approach is gaining acceptance from hardware
vendors, but they caution that QoS intelligence must stay in
network devices such as routers.

But Microsoft claims it is seeking a complementary position. To
that end, it’s backing an extension to the Internet Engineering
Task Force’s Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP).”

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