GROUP QOS TECHNOLOGY BRIEF ST Engineering iDirect’s advanced Group Quality of Service (GQoS) significantly increases network operator bandwidth management capabilities when prioritizing traffic for customers in a shared network environment. The results are more flexibility with traffic configuration and prioritization, more savings over conventional QoS, and improved customer service quality. Network operators face increasingly difficult requirements when it comes to traffic management in a mixed media environment that may include voice, video, and data. Group QoS provides a comprehensive set of powerful, state of the art features that bring robust dimensions and options for traffic prioritization and bandwidth management that spans across multiple applications, multiple remotes, even multiple sub-networks. The customer’s experience and quality are improved — and determining the right tiered service levels across the pool of end customers and their applications is easier. Key Highlights Allows partitioning of both outbound and in-route group bandwidth Operators can segregate bandwidth by groups of remotes and by applications Support different end customers with diverse user profiles, whether multiple applications and traffic requirements or different sub-segments Apply once-defined user profiles to new customers and network configurations, saving set-up time and future upgrades Supports configuring Bandwidth Groups, Service Groups, Applications, Default Profile, Additional Profiles, Remotes Configuration, Managing Group Profiles, and configuration following upgrade to Group QoS VELOCITY EVOLUT

Group QoS delivers greater traffic management flexibility. There are limitless possibilities for quality of service levels and traffic prioritization. Traffic can be differentiated by group of remotes, applications, VLANS, or all of these simultaneously, enabling a network operator to define configuration profiles by service and application groups based on priority, cost, Commited Information Rate (CIR) and Maximum Information Rate (MIR). Customers with diverse user profiles can be grouped into the same bandwidth pool, providing substantial savings in terms of space segment costs. These configuration...