The Internet is quickly changing our daily lives. That's an annual growth rate of 90 percent. Of course change won't be evidenced purely by a sales curve. Change in the Internet economy permeates entire organizations, from the way employees communicate with each other and with business partners to the way they service customers. The network needs the agility to change quickly, to allow the organization to adopt new working practices fast before losing strategic advantage to the competition.
Control is imperative if the business is to avoid costly delays caused by network congestion.
These requirements come even more sharply into focus when we include new applications such as integrated data, voice, and video, Web transaction processing, and videoconferencing. Never before has the network infrastructure been under such demands to deliver intelligent network services and match specific new business demands. The agility of an enterprise is a measure of its ability to adapt to changing environments. The deployment of sophisticated, intelligent functions into the network make new business practices, information-based corporate culture, and accelerated technology a reality. The CiscoAssure QoS framework delivers policy management for business applications enabling organizations to streamline mission-critical data through the corporate network.