Searchlight distributed qos management

A method of distributing bandwidth on a network comprising:

• providing at least one rule;
• identifying at least two flows;
• responsive to identifying the at least two flows, assigning two or more flows of the at least two flows a respective priority based on the at least one rule;
• responsive to assigning the two or more flows of the at least two flows a priority, distributing bandwidth of at least one flow of the at least two flows to a different flow of the at least two flows.

A dynamic quality management system (DQM) comprising:

• a supervisor configured to provide bandwidth distributions for one or more flows;
• and
• an enforcer configured to receive the bandwidth distributions for the one or more flows, the enforcer being further configured to
• control a distribution of bandwidth for a first classification of flows routed through a network switch;
• and
• control a distribution of bandwidth for a second classification of flows routed through the network switch.