A First Look at Media Conferencing Traffic in the Global Enterprise

Authors:
Vijay Vasudevan;Sudipta Sengupta;Jin Li
Affiliations:
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA PA 15213 and Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA WA 98052;Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA WA 98052;Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA WA 98052
Venue:
PAM '09 Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Passive and Active Network Measurement
Year:
2009

Citing 6
Cited 0

A case study of OSPF behavior in a large enterprise network

Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Internet measurment
A first look at modern enterprise traffic

IMC '05 Proceedings of the 5th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet Measurement
Ethane: taking control of the enterprise

Proceedings of the 2007 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Towards highly reliable enterprise network services via inference of multi-level dependencies

Proceedings of the 2007 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Automating cross-layer diagnosis of enterprise wireless networks

Proceedings of the 2007 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
How healthy are today's enterprise networks?

Proceedings of the 8th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement

Quantified Score

Hi-index	0.00

Visualization

Abstract

Many enterprise networks have grown far beyond a single large site to span tens to hundreds of branch offices across the globe, each connected over VPNs or leased lines. With the emergence of the globally-connected enterprise and the trend towards enterprise all-IP convergence, including transitioning the enterprise PBX to VoIP servers, IP-based audio/video conferencing for telepresence has challenged the notion that bandwidth is abundant in the enterprise. We take a first look at media conferencing traffic in the global enterprise and, by instrumenting measurement of call quality and network statistics, we quantify the impact on call quality for a range of factors in the enterprise, such as wired vs. wireless access, inter- vs. intra- branch office communication, QoS mechanisms like VLAN tagging and DiffServ DSCP marking, and VPN vs. public Internet access.