Performance Studies of Voice and Video Conferencing over ATM and Gigabit Ethernet Backbone Networks

Authors:
Nurul I. Sarkar;Kashif Nisar;Yash Dole
Affiliations:
Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand;Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand, and Universiti Utara -Malaysia, Malaysia;Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
Venue:
International Journal of Technology Diffusion
Year:
2012

Citing 5
Cited 0

Gigabit Ethernet: From 100 to 1,000 Mbps

IEEE Internet Computing
End-to-End Performance of 10-Gigabit Ethernet on Commodity Systems

IEEE Micro
Research on MPLS VPN Networking Application Based on OPNET

ISISE '08 Proceedings of the 2008 International Symposium on Information Science and Engieering - Volume 01
Real-time multimedia over ATM: RMOA

IEEE Communications Magazine
Videoconferencing over packet-based networks

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Quantified Score

Hi-index	0.00

Visualization

Abstract

This research paper compares two popular backbone network technologies-Gigabit Ethernet and Asynchronous Transfer Mode ATM. ATM has been a popular choice for years for providing multimedia applications over the network effectively by making use of its features like Quality of Service QoS. Gigabit Ethernet matches ATM's functionality by providing higher bandwidth at lower cost, less complexity and easier integration into the existing Ethernet technologies. Hence, it becomes important to compare these two technologies against various network performance metrics to find out which technology performs better for what type of applications under what circumstances. This research paper will analyze and compare the performance of those two technologies based on the throughput, end-to-end delay for Voice and Video conferencing and jitter for the Voice applications. For this purpose, two different simulations were created, one for the Gigabit Ethernet and the other one for the ATM network, using the popular commercial and academic simulation software-OPNET modeler.