Everyone can understand that a marketing department has different network needs than an engineering department. AL is Aldea's policy management tool that provides networks and network managers a distributed, router independent system to assign policies that utilize QoS. Networks that are planning to deploy Internet Quality of Service can use AL to deploy it in a meaningful way - one that reflects the needs of the user communities. QoS stands for Quality of Service. It is a new standard from the Internet standards group, the Internet Engineering Task Force that provides differing levels of service on Internet standards-based networks. Defining QoS policy is a tricky business.
Policy is essentially a matter of allocating resources in terms of business decisions.
The translation between business terms and the router configuration details necessary to produce those resource allocations is even trickier. AL helps correctly configure QoS policy in corporate intranets. AL can mitigate the need for weeks of training and years of network experience. AL will help take QoS out of the realm of network experimentation into the realm of worldwide deployment. Internet Service Providers and medium to large networks can particularly take advantage of AL's distributed management capabilities.