Glossary: CCNA & General Networking Terms 

 

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QoS
Quality of Service, a measure of the priority of packets in a shared network, principally in terms of latency in transmission. Of interest in real-time applications e.g. video.
queue
A backup of packets awaiting processing. [Source: RFC1392]