Quality Windows Audio Video Experience (qWave) is a networking platform for audio video (AV) streaming applications on IP home networks. qWave enhances AV streaming performance and reliability by ensuring network quality-of-service (QoS) for AV applications. It provides mechanisms for admission control, run time monitoring and enforcement, application feedback, and traffic prioritization.

On Windows Server platforms, qWave provides only rate-of-flow and prioritization services.

For more information about qWave, see the Windows Server® 2008 TechCenter (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=48541).