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Simulation of Ames Backbone NetworkThe networking demands of Ames Research Center are dramatically increasing. More and more workstations are requested to run video and audio applications on the network. These applications require a much greater bandwidth than data applications. The existing ARCLAN 2000 network bandwidth is insufficient, due to the use of FDDI as its backbone, for accommodating video applications. Operating at a maximum of 100 Mbps, FDDI can handle only a few workstations running multimedia applications. The ideal solution is to replace the current ARCLAN 2000 FDDI backbone with an ATM backbone. ATM has the capability to handle the increasing traffic loads on the ARCLAN 2000 that results from these new applications. As it can be seen from Figure 1, ARCLAN 2000 have a total of 32 routers (5 being core routers) each connected to the FDDI backbone via a 100 Mbps link. This network serves 34 different locations by using 34 hubs that are connected to secondary routers. End users are connected to the secondary routers with 10 Mbps links.
Document ID
19990021049
Acquisition Source
Armstrong Flight Research Center
Document Type
Other
Authors
Shahnasser, Hamid
(San Francisco State Univ. CA United States)
Date Acquired
August 19, 2013
Publication Date
October 1, 1998
Subject Category
Computer Systems
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.
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