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Abstract
As user applications continue to drive network growth and evolution, demand to support different types of traffic is also increasing. Different types of applications with differing network requirements create a need for administrative policies mandating how individual applications are to be treated by the network. Network traffic from business-critical applications must be protected from other types of traffic. Requests from business-critical and delay-sensitive applications must be serviced with priority. The employment and enforcement of quality of service (QoS) policies within a network play an essential role in enabling network administrators and architects to meet networked application demands. QoS is a crucial element of any administrative policy that mandates how to handle application traffic on a network. Networks must provide secure, predictable, measurable, and, sometimes, guaranteed services. Network administrators and architects can better achieve this performance from network by managing delay, delay variation (Jitter), bandwidth provisioning, and packet loss parameters with quality of service (QoS) techniques. As the concept of converged network is being widely used today where all types of traffic are required to be sent and transmitted on the same wide area network (WAN) link. Hence different applications need to be differentiated and treated according to their sensitivity to business. QoS is the suitable answer and method to solve this issue and make sure that each traffic type will be treated differently using various mechanisms of QoS. In this research different types of traffic that represent different applications are generated in WAN and local area network (LAN) where various techniques of QoS are implemented. Network performance is indicated by capturing different parameters on real time such as, delay, jitter, packet loss, and bandwidth. Based on results obtained, a set of recommendations is concluded for each QoS mechanism highlighting the suitable traffic type for this technique to be used for along with appropriate network locations for this technique to be implemented.