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The winner of our 10-megabits-per-second-and-higher tests, Lightspeed Systems QoS Control for e-Business 1100, is an Intel-based traffic management appliance in a 1U form factor. It sports two 10/100 megabit Ethernet ports and a standard console connection in the front of the appliance - a plus for easy access and setup. QosWorks 10000, on the other hand, offers its Ethernet and console ports at the back of the unit. The QoS Control for e-Business appliance runs Microsoft Windows NT and is managed remotely, with limited configuration options available in the CLI via a console connection. You can, if you desire, console into the Lightspeed and drop to an NT command prompt, though there is very little that can be accomplished in this manner from a traffic management perspective. 
The setup of the QoS Control for e-Business appliance required us to spend some time learning the interface of the IP Magic Manager -- a drag-and-drop, graphical-based configuration and management application. Unlike the QoSWorks 10000's management interface, this application was not initially intuitive. The documentation provided for QoS Control for e-Business was less than helpful and needs a lot of improvement. 
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