Quality of Service in IP Networks

Rating:
Summary: luke warm..
Review: If you like it hot then this book aint for you. Primarily, it is Armitage's writing style which is a little turn off. If you have read other research papers by Armitage then you'd know what I'm talking about. I had to read a lot of those during my thesis work.

Another reason for being luke warm is that QoS is a little vague topic to write about. Comparable works that I've read are: 'Quality of Service' by Ferguson and 'Supporting Service level agreements in IP networks' by Verma.

This book touches upon a lot of different current topics in networking such as DiffServ, Inteserv, MPLS etc without going into too much detail.

Unless you have practically worked on either developing or configuring QoS in routers, you'd have a hard time grasping some of the concepts because they might seem little too abstract at times. If you understand link coloring, CoS, constraint based routing and how routers (such as Juniper) actually implement it, then this book will make more sense.

Rating:
Summary: Great book about QoS - and more!
Review: This book is remarkable. It manages to provide a thorough up-to-date coverage of everything you always wanted to know about QoS but were even more afraid to ask than about the original 3-letter thing. Not only it educates in the current state of the QoS affairs, but also I think I learned enough to follow on with evolving technologies and approaches. Then of course, you cannot really talk about QoS without referring to all major Internet/TCP/IP mechanisms. So as an added bonus, the book provides lots of concise but comprehensive refreshers on IP addressing, router architecture, LAN technologies, end user applications, etc. The book is easy to read. It makes a good weekend reading that allows you to update your resume on Monday with "QoS expert".