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Module: CO4506 Wired and Wireless

Lab3: Evaluating Application Performance across a WAN

Advance Scenario A1. To get the average response time is 0.5 sec on data rate on WAN is by using the 1967750Mbps (1.87659 Terabyte) as shown in Fig1. The web page response time is increase 0.4 as compare to the default data rate of WAN link on web response time 0.3 as shown in Fig 2. Advance Scenario 2 To analyze the traffic, we change the value on small company LAN with two switches over WAN . The continuous streaming between the music server and several users, change the traffic (packets/sec) and traffic (bit/sec) as shown in the table. Different users have difference requirement of music server streaming so we use different values of different users. As show in table1. Table1 Continuous Traffic Traffic streaming to (bits/sec) (packets/sec) Music Server User T3_1hour_bps 1000pps 3,5,8,11 User 12,13 T1_1hour_bps 200_pps User 2 G729_1User 1000_pps Each row of this profile represents the traffic intensity in bits/sec. The value rendezvous with the traffic (packet/sec) to determine the average packet size for the corresponding time.(1) to perform the simulation we shall compare the result of simulation with normal LAN with two switches over WAN.

Fig1. Average web response time 0.5 sec.

Advance Scenario A2. Changing the data rate of on WAN, first we have to edit the attributes of WAN link, and change the model to ppp_adv by doing this we can put the data rate manual as by getting from the value of Date rate in advance scenario A1.

Fig2. Comparing the web response time of two switches over WAN

Fig3. FTP Download Response time and Web Application Response time with comparison Two switch WAN and Two switch WAN Demand Object.

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2 as showing in Fig 3. A significant result shown when streaming started on the network, application start intense bandwidth of network. Nevertheless using T1 WAN data link rate seems slow connection. Advance Scenario 3 if one of the WAN link go down/fails, all the network traffic can still access the internet at higher cost of utilization and response times as show in Fig4.

Module: CO4506 Wired and Wireless 1GBbps is not showing much big difference however using 100MBps cable worthwhile on this network as shown in table2,3 and Fig5. Table2 HTTP Application Response Time (average time) Cable Data Transfer Rate(seconds) 10MBps 0.45 100MBps 0.44 1GBbps 0.44

Fig4 LAN failed Router and LAN failed WAN link

in Fig3 we analyse the router fail and WAN link fails. When router goes down the ARP table of network delete the router table entry. So all traffic is deliver to the other router which is connected to WAN. On other hand when WAN Link goes down the network traffic request the data from router and router ARP table is in list of network machines. But however the router is not connected to WAN link so traffic delay and that s what show in the fig4 is. Advance Scenario 4 and 5 upgrading to 100MBbps links will speed up the transfer rate of data as network is implemented 10MBbps cable. Network interface card (NIC) 10/100Base-T auto sensing LAN allows connecting 10MBps workstation to 100MBbs workstation. NIC using 10/100MBbps technology will automatically adjust the maximum speed of the NIC attached to workstation to optimize network speed (1). Thus upgrading cable to Student Name: Sheraz Salim

Fig5 10MBps,100MBps,1GBbps

Table3 FTP Download Response Time (average time) Cable Data Transfer Rate(seconds) 10MBps 0.60 100MBps 0.62 1GBbps 0.60

The analysis show there is no use to upgrade the cable on network. The results are not showing difference. Consider cable upgrade in this situation if network grow in future. Challenge As company is double its computing equipment in 2 years, we double the traffic on the network topology and the simulaltion WAN result generated as show in fig6 Student ID: 20388626

Module: CO4506 Wired and Wireless higher use. Company can use T1 line which will give them a saving of money. As a network consultant my recommendation will be to put a firewall so block illegal access for staff.

Fig6. WAN data rate using T1. The result show that network is consuming a lot of bandwidth on each side. As WAN link2 reduce to 37.5 and WAN link1 reduce to 50. To tackle this problem we shall use T3 line instead of T1 line. By using T3 line the result are show in fig7

Fig7. WAN data rate using T3. Which show a significant improvement. Conclusion The lab give a view of load balancing by putting two router using EIRG, to performed it better for network usage. In challenge scenario where company double its equipment we put T3 line. Instead of putting T3 line we could put firewall router and block illegal access for the staff. By doing this it will give a company to save a money paying for Student Name: Sheraz Salim Reference (1) Networks Design and Management, second edition. StevenT. Karris, chapter 4, page 4-7

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