Netw410 Week 1 Lab Report

NETW410 Week 1 Lab Report

Alexander Davis

NETW410, Christine Adams

9 March 2014

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.

The purpose of a network is to share information from one point to another. With companies based all over the country and the world, this is an absolute must so that they can maintain good communication in order for the company to succeed. With a network, you can also communicate with business partners across the world, share information and new ideas between one another. Networks do not create themselves, you need individuals to design and implement a network. The purpose of the lab is to focus on LAN models and background utilization, and see how background noise can affect e-mail and VoIP.

E-mail is an important tool of a business in today’s society in order to communicate effectively. Gone are the days of sending letters through the postal service; now one can simply type up a letter on the computer, sending it to the recipient and they instantly receive the document. Background noise can affect e-mail traffic by creating a lot of unnecessary traffic on the network. This can slow e-mail traffic greatly due to the large amount of bandwidth being consumed by...