NTC249 Week 1 Discussion (dq1+dq2+dq3) Latest

NTC249 Wide Area Networking Concepts

Week 1 Discussion

DQ 1· What are two WANs that you have used? What equipment or devices were used? Describe the network design and configuration? Respond to your classmates, and discuss how your examples differ.

DQ 2 · Chou (2009) discusses a very common situation in business, communications between branch offices, and the home office data center. The author presents two methodologies to improve throughput between the offices and the data center: data compression and caching. Analyze and discuss the common types of data used in your company to test the suitability of these methods. Additionally, discuss where, in general, data compression can be used and where data compression cannot be used.

DQ 3  Soares, et al. (2008) review all the present protocol segments necessary for VoIP telephony. Protocol such as Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and H.323 are prevalent but have limitations. Analyze and discuss the limitations of SIP and H.323 as presently used and include in your discussion effects of the proposed Advanced Multimedia System (AMS) protocol and whether it will fix the existing problems.