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Foil 11 Designer Viewpoint (5)

From Network Design for Internetworking Lectures at Xi'an Jaotong University -- Sept 1998. by Roman Markowski
Protocols for existing and planned applications
  • Technologies: Ethernet, Token Ring, FDDI, ATM, ISDN...
  • Routing: static, dynamic; fixed (PVCs)
  • Network: TCP/IP, AppleTalk, NetBEUI, IPX/SPX....
  • Services: NIS, DNS, print,mail,ftp, telnet.....
  • Addressing: flat or hierarchical; fixed or dynamic
Timing and delay considerations
  • access time and response time (function of amount of traffic generated by users, available bandwidth, networking devices)
  • what is the element of delay that most impacts response time ?
  • Users want minimum delay and maximum throughput
  • Switch performance: 500,000 pps

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