Networking Papers revisons (2 papers) for Sirleem

Network Design 2

25 June 2014

Professor

Introduction:

Protocols can be defined as rules that govern communication between many computers. This paper will analyze the advantages of protocols in an organization. It will also provide solutions to the organization to prevent the organization from making losses from consuming large bytes of bundles.

Importance of communication protocols

Protocols have a major role in communication in the world. They ensure that there is communication between computers. Some of the common communication protocols that have enabled communication between computers include:

HTTP- this communication protocol helps us to view pages that are kept in a different computer.

FTP- this communication protocol helps us send or receive files from other computers that are connected by the protocol.

SMTP/POP3 is communication protocols that help in sending and receiving of emails.

Identify the protocols in your design and provide rationale for your decision

According to the definition of protocol, there is links of communication in the given designs. Some of the protocols in the design include the corporate head quarter because it uses hypertext transfer protocol in viewing files that are contained in other computers that are stationed in other stations. The computers are interconnected by the internet. The information that headquarter can access from the other computers include information of the employees from customer plastic parts plant, plastic fan plant and the plastic beverage container plant. Another protocol s in the design is the plants because they can send and receive files by the use of file transfer protocol in receiving and sending information from the headquarters.

Define the overall network architecture

Network architecture is an organization’s computer framework that is complete. The diagram shows the network architecture of Riordan Manufacturing (McCabe, 2010). The network in this organization shows a detailed view of all the resources that can be accessed in the organization. The resources that can be accessed here include the all the plants that are under the corporate headquarter.

Explain the usefulness of a traffic analysis

Some of the major benefits traffic analysis is to prevent those people in an organization tend to use more bandwidth making a loss to the organization. By observing the IP address of the HTTP requests, there is a possibility of you finding out the most sites that employees in an organization visit and therefore prevent them. Another usefulness of using traffic analysis is ensuring network security by preventing anomalies in the usage of bandwidth in the organization (Garber & Hoel, 2014). Traffic analysis also helps to know the level of links and therefore plan to get extra links that may reduce congestion.

Explain the terms latency, response time, and jitter, and describe their effect on overall network performance and on the performance of your chosen organization’s network.

Latency is the amount that a packet takes to be transmitted from one end to another across a network. Response time is the total time that a service takes to respond to a request and jitter is used to refer variations that occur in the arrival rate of packets under the same data flow (Weinstein, 2007). An abnormal jitter values can have a negative effect on real-time applications like videos. It is important to assess the delay time and jitter because it helps to determine if the voice application works. In an organization it is these terms will enable the organization to evaluate whether all the voice application is working, of they also help the organization to aid in the correct design and configuration of traffic prioritization.

Explain the effect of data rates on each part of the network.

Data transfer rate is the amount of digital data that is moved from one place to another in a specific time (SINGH, 2011.). Increase of data rates increases the throughput of the transmitted power. Increase in the data transfer rate means that information is transferred very quickly, therefore the higher the bandwidth of a given path, it means that the rate of transfer is high.

Describe strategies to ensure the availability of network access in switched and routed networks.

Some of the strategies that ensure that there is availability of network access in switched and routed networks include redundancy, high availability, virtualization, planned outages and disaster recover. All this strategies are very vital in ensuring that an organization is having a good design of their backup solutions that the organization can count on and those that are cost effective to the organization. Risk analysis also is an important exercise to an organization because it evaluates the organizations profits or losses. Virtualization helps an organization to reduce power consumption and therefore they reduce the costs the organization is spending on the enormous power bills. Virtualization is also beneficial in providing high availability for critical applications and rationalizes application migration (Bauer & Adams, 2012). Virtualization can also simplify IT operation and also allow IT organization to change to faster business demands.

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