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With Quality of Service (QoS), you can prioritize business-critical traffic and
applications that require low latency (like VoIP and video applications).To add or
edit a QoS policy rule, go to ManageConfigurationNGFW and Prisma AccessNetwork PoliciesQoS.
QoS Policy Rules
Quality of Service (QoS) policy rules to identify traffic that requires preferential
treatment or bandwidth limiting. QoS rules allow you to dependably run high-priority
applications and traffic under limited network capacity. You can configure traffic
QoS treatment using the Differentiated Services Code Points (DSCP). These codepoints
are packet header values that can be used to request (for example) high priority or
best effort delivery for traffic. Prisma Access both enforces DSCP values for
incoming traffic and marks a session with a DSCP value as session traffic exits the
firewall. This means that all inbound and outbound traffic for a session is
receiving continuous QoS treatment. You can configure traffic QoS treatment using
the following codepoints:
Expedited Forwarding (EF)—Used to request low loss, low latency
and guaranteed bandwidth for traffic.
Packets with EF codepoint values are typically guaranteed highest
priority delivery.
Assured Forwarding (AF)—Used to provide reliable delivery for
applications.
Packets with AF codepoints indicate a request for traffic to receive
higher priority treatment than best effort service provides. Packets
with EF codepoint take precedence over packets with AF codepoint.
Class Selector (CS)—Used to provide backwards compatibility with
network IP addresses that use the IP precedence field to mark priority
traffic.
IP Precedence (ToS)—Used by legacy network IP addresses to mark
priority traffic.
Custom Codepoint—Create a custom codepoint to match traffic by
entering a Codepoint Name and Binary Value.
For example, you can create a QoS policy rule to prioritize voice
communications, such as voice over IP (VOIP), to ensure consistent
packet transmission. This ensures that voice communication are
consistent.