What feature in Aruba lets you prioritize voice traffic over the network?

Quality of Service (QoS) is a critical feature that enables network administrators to prioritize certain types of traffic, such as voice traffic, to ensure optimal performance and reliability. In voice over IP (VoIP) applications, it is essential to maintain high audio quality and to minimize latency, jitter, and packet loss. By implementing QoS, the network can classify and manage traffic based on its requirements, allowing voice packets to take precedence over less time-sensitive data.

QoS works by utilizing techniques such as traffic classification, queuing, and prioritization. In the case of voice traffic, QoS mechanisms can assign higher priority to voice packets, allowing them to travel through the network pathways with minimal interference and delay. This prioritization is vital in environments where voice and data coexist, particularly in enterprise networks that support a mix of critical applications.

While other options like Traffic Shaping and Bandwidth Management can help control the amount of bandwidth available to different types of traffic or manage overall network load, they do not specifically focus on prioritizing traffic based on its type and requirements like QoS does. Load Balancing is primarily concerned with evenly distributing traffic across multiple paths or devices to prevent bottlenecks, which is different from prioritizing specific types of data.