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Thanks,<br />
That all makes sense.
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I have a conference taking place in our office next week, The attendees are working on a one day project that will require access to Skype. There will be 5 workstations with teams that will all have separate Skype connections. I have a 30MB fiber internet connection that is shared daily by our 80 employees. I also have and FTP and file sharing server in-house. I'm concerned about the conference getting the bandwidth they need during their meeting. The only appliance I have that I can possibly control traffic is my watchguard. If I place them on their own switch and take that traffic through an available interface on the watchguard, is there any way for me to make sure that their traffic gets priority? Maybe even if I could just give priority to the Skype traffic they generate? &nbsp;I have considered purchasing a couple of broadband hotspots as a solution and just getting them off my network completely<br />
I would appreciate any ideas.
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I have a conference taking place in our office next week, The attendees are working on a one day project that will require access to Skype. There will be 5 workstations with teams that will all have separate Skype connections. I have a 30MB fiber internet connection that is shared daily by our 80 employees. I also have and FTP and file sharing server in-house. I'm concerned about the conference getting the bandwidth they need during their meeting. The only appliance I have that I can possibly control traffic is my watchguard. If I place them on their own switch and take that traffic through an available interface on the watchguard, is there any way for me to make sure that their traffic gets priority? Maybe even if I could just give priority to the Skype traffic they generate?  I have considered purchasing a couple of broadband hotspots as a solution and just getting them off my network completely
I would appreciate any ideas.

Conference network/internet traffic - priority

The term broadband commonly refers to high-speed Internet access that is always on and faster than the traditional dial-up access. Broadband includes several high-speed transmission technologies such as digital subscriber line (DSL), cable, fiber optics, wireless (for which there is a separate topic), satellite and broadband over powerlines (BPL).

Broadband

Network Management involves issues that are independent of specific hardware or software, including email policies, upgrade planning, backup scheduling and working with managed service providers for Desktop-As-A-Service (DaaS), Software-As-A-Service (SaaS) and the like through the use of tools, coupled with manufacturer standards, best practice guidelines, policies and procedures plus all other relevant documentation. Network management also includes monitoring, alerting and reporting, management reporting, planning for device or service updates, the backup of configurations, the setting of key performance indicators and measures (KPIs/KPMs), associated service level agreements and problem records as part of the IT Service Management (ITSM) framework.