Bandwidth Management (Dedicated)

I currently work in hospitality and I am always getting request for dedicated bandwidth. I know there is a product on the market called Cymphonix that says it does bandwidth manangement but I have heard not very successful.
I know I can do this with QoS but often time that's too diffucult to troubleshoot and manage for front line support. Does Ciso have a appliance that does this.
Scenario:
Customer calls in and to an hotel wanting to rent out an meeting room for a video production. The customer need 5 Mbps guaranteed. The hotel has a 75 Mbps metrope circuit and has no problem with that customer requesting the dedicated 5 Mbps.
How/What tools or appliances does Cisco have that would loow mw to slice up that 75Mbps circuit on the fly and allocate the 5 Mbps. I know that QoS can give me the ability to slice it up but once again that solution is a bot mor ecompicated.
Thanks,
Gregory Jackson

We had the same problem. Rate Control didn't seem to work.
I discovered that after changing the rate control settings and saving these settings the router needs a reboot.
Otherwise the rate control does not work anymore and the bandwidth is not managed.
Whenever something is modified in the rate control settings you have to reboot the router.

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