Method and apparatus for quality of service management

A method for bandwidth management in a plurality of networks comprising:

• providing a plurality of bandwidth management servers coupled to a plurality of networks, each bandwidth management server of the plurality of bandwidth management servers providing bandwidth management for the network coupled to the bandwidth management server;
• providing a central network server coupled to the plurality of bandwidth management servers and the plurality of networks, the central network server providing directory services to the plurality of networks;
• configuring bandwidth management features for the plurality of networks within the central network server via a remote client;
• and
• using the directory services provided by the central network server to provide the bandwidth management features to the plurality of bandwidth management servers.

In a network of trusted network servers providing quality of service management services to a plurality of networks, a central computer system coupled to the network of trusted network servers and configured to provide quality of service features for the network of trusted network servers, the computer system including:

• a processor;
• and
• a computer readable media including:
• code that directs the processor to provide directory services to the network of trusted network servers;
• code that directs the processor to receive quality of service configuration data for the network of trusted network servers from a remote client;
• and
• code that directs the processor to use the directory services to provide each trusted network server of the network of trusted network servers with the quality of service configuration data.