Netw410

NETW410 Week 1 Lab Report

NETW410, Professor’s Name Farooq Afzal

Lab 1: OPNET LAN Modeling Tutorial

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Week 1 iLab Report

The first objective in the LAN Modeling tutorial is Setting Up the Scenario. The final step in setting up your scenario appears below.

1. (30 points) Once your project is created (after Step 6 above), your workspace will contain a map of the United States. Your project and scenario name can be seen in ITGuru’s top window border in the form of Project: <project name> Scenario: <scenario name>.

Capture a screenshot of your new project workspace that clearly shows your project and scenario name, and paste it below.

2. (40 points) In college-level paragraph(s), describe how background traffic affects both e-mail data and VoIP data.

In this week’s iLab we looked into creating a scenario in Opnet lab system to show a comparison of a network on the east coast with no background traffic, or load, compared to an identical one with background traffic. The main areas that the lab focused on was how background traffic affects email data and VOIP data. Both are very important concepts that many businesses today count on nationwide. The following will discuss each area of focus and some potential solutions to help mitigate these issues.

Since the 1960’s email has grown at an unbelievable rate, and it is used in many businesses today. Since this is a primary form of communication in today’s world this means it needs to be reliable and efficient at all times. To perform to these high standards we set for this form of communication it can require a lot of bandwidth. This is especially true when users have to send multiple page documents/files for any number of reasons or scenarios. Because so much bandwidth is required a network must be free of background traffic. As more people began to logon to use the network it can...