Netw410 Week 1 Lab Report

NETW410 Week 1 Lab Report

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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.

This week’s iLab looked into creating a scenario in IT Guru to show the 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 of focus affected by this background traffic are email data and VOIP data. Both are key aspects of today’s businesses and relied upon nationwide. The following will discuss each area of focus and some potential solutions to help mitigate these issues.

Email was started in the 60’s but has grown exponentially since. Being a primary form of communication in today’s businesses means it needs to be reliable and efficient. To perform to these standards it requires a lot of bandwidth. This is especially true when multiple page documents/files are being sent for an endless number of reasons or scenarios. Because so much bandwidth is required a network must not have background traffic taking it away. As more users began to sign on and use the network it can begin to get “bogged down”. It can be frustrating when an important document has not arrived since sent, yet...