During peak business hours, network traffic bursts can result in productivity losses and slow network response caused by non-critical traffic.
Network managers can begin to migrate to prioritization through infrastructure device upgrades.
However, networks can also benefit from prioritization even where the infrastructure does not yet support 802.1p. Fast Ethernet Adapters, including 802.1p tagging and High Priority Queue. Prioritization is Necessary Today's networks are the backbones of successful, growing businesses. Both employee productivity and customer satisfaction can largely depend on prompt delivery of time-critical traffic. For example, employees who talk with customers directly while querying databases, such as technical support representatives, phone sales specialists, and travel agents, deliver customer satisfaction and revenue producing sales only as fast as the network will allow.