- Physical layer diversity
- Optimum bandwidth utilization
- Broadcast and multicast support
- Automatic topology discovery
- Quick protection mechanism
- Traffic level guarantees based on bandwidth reservation and rate limiting
- Bandwidth sharing fairness among stations on the ring
The Intelligent Management Center (IMC) Quality of Service Manager (QoSM) enhances visibility and control over QoS configurations on network devices. By providing a rich set of QoS device and configuration management functions, and ignoring differences in the QoS configurations of multiple devices, it enables administrators to focus on QoS service planning, and the most economical and effective use of network resources.