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QoS aware router
Are there routers available in market that can re-route the traffic based on QoS ? For example, if data rate of a Video Stream decreases due to an increase in congestion along the path then the router will re-route the stream dynamically to a different path to ensure the QoS for the video traffic.
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Traffic shaping router will only prioritize the traffic i.e. in case of congestion, it will drop the packets belonging to low priority class but I want to know if there are routers that can dynamically re-route the traffic instead of dropping any traffic ? I do understand that this is not the job of a conventional router since router is network layer device and does not read the application header, but just wondering if there is any such non conventional commercial router available ? One such device which does application level packet shapping is Packeteer (http://www.packeteer.com/) but it is not a router. Secondly, can't a router estimate the latency/bandwidth on a specific route ? Also I want to know if the TOS field indicate application traffic classes such as SIP and VOIP ?
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is prioritize traffic in such a way that depending on an application class (lets say VOIP/SIP traffic) the router will ensure that your applications gets priority handling. This prioritization can be done automatically (this is a very crude method, the router may only use things like the TOS field to prioritize the traffic). The other traffic shaping is done manually. There are routing systems that will analyze things like link latency and allow you to re-route traffic.