Prioritizing highly compressed traffic to provide a predetermined quality of service

A method for optimizing transmission of network traffic, the method comprising:

• receiving, by a network optimization engine executing on an appliance, data packets transmitted over a network;
• analyzing, by the network optimization engine, each received data packets to calculate a compression ratio for each data packet and determining whether the calculated compression ratio for each received data packet exceeds a predetermined compression ratio threshold;
• classifying, by the network optimization engine, data packets having a compression ratio that exceeds the predetermined compression ratio threshold as highly compressed traffic;
• sorting, by the network optimization engine, the received data packets according to the highly compressed traffic classification;
• transmitting data packets classified as highly compressed traffic according to a first transmission scheme;
• and
• transmitting data packets not classified as highly compressed traffic according to a second transmission scheme, where the first transmission scheme is different than the second transmission scheme.