What you need for using this QoS API: A PC with Windows NT 4.0 Operating System SR 3 An ATM card, which comes with a native ATM Service Provider. We used the Adaptec ANA 5930 for testing our software. The native ATM Service Provider up and runnning. The JDK v. 1.1. We make use of native calls to the JavaVirtualMachine and do not support the Microsoft mechanism in this release.

What you get when using this QoS API (current release 1.0) Easy access to QoS networking based on ATM. We support any AAL provided by your installed transport service provider. Many Java classes making it easy to develop QoS aware applications Support for error handling using exceptions. ....

What you do not get in the current release 1.0 Access to QoS networking based on RSVP Support for Linux or Unix. We only support Windows NT at the moment. But we are working on it.