...NETW320 -- Converged Networks with Lab Lab #3 Title: IPv4 TOS and Router Queuing Objectives In this lab, you will work with an intranet for an organization that will encompass four different site locations in different cities. The subnets of these locations will be connected by a backbone IP network. The organization will be using a converged network that allows data and real-time voice traffic to traverse the same packet-switched network. The data traffic will consist of FTP (file transfer protocol) and email traffic and the voice traffic will be a VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) implementation. You will experiment with various router queuing policies to see how routers within a TCP/IP network can be utilized to support QoS (Quality of Service) within a converged network that is based on TCP/IP. Explanation and Background Traditional voice and data applications have been kept on separate networks. The voice traffic is confined to a circuit-switched network while data traffic is on a packet-switched network. Often, businesses keep these networks in separate rooms, or on different floors, within buildings that they own or lease (and many still do). This requires a lot of additional space and technical manpower to maintain these two distinct infrastructures. Today’s networks call for the convergence of these circuit-switching and packet-switching networks, such that voice and data traffic will traverse a common network based on packet switching. A common WAN technology...
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