The key objective of EuQoS is to research, integrate, test, validate and demonstrate end-to-end QoS technologies to support the infrastructure up-grade for advanced QoS-aware applications - voice, video-conferencing, video-streaming, educational, tele-engineering and medical applications - over multiple, heterogeneous research, scientific and industrial network domains.

The project will deliver the EuQoS system which will support the delivery of end to end QoS. As QoS is primarily a challenge for the access network, the EuQoS system will be developed and trialed on various types of research access networks with the GEANT core providing Pan European support. This heterogeneous infrastructure, which models the production networks of the future, requires a QoS technical solution that has not been synthesised to date. The EuQoS project will propose and develop new QoS mechanisms which build upon the state of the art and incorporate the following mechanisms: Monitoring and Measurements, Admission Control, Failure Management, Signaling & Service Negotiation, Security and AAA, Charging and Traffic Engineering & Resource Optimisation.