Elastic and Inelastic Traffic

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Basically, there are two types of internet traffic: elastic and inelastic internet traffic. Elastic traffic can adjust, over wide ranges, to changes in delay and throughout across the internet and still meets the requirements of its application. On the other hand, inelastic traffic does not easily adapt, if at all, changes in delay and throughout across the internet. Currently, web traffic is about one trillion bits per second and surprisingly, it is on the rise, and soon it will hit three tbps.

Names are assigned to varied genres of devices in the modern networks, workstation, servers, and routers. A well-designed naming model should enable users to access the created device by name. The name of the sources indicates what to check while an address shows its location (Li & Chen, 2012). Most network protocols always require the parent device to obtain a network address, and the end user system must map this address to a name.

Developing an addressing and naming model for ten departments

For a company that consists of ten departments that have 1000 employees, there is a need to design 9 Local Area Network (LAN) with equal geographical separation. For the network to work effectively and efficiently, it would be prudent if each LAN can contain more than forty-five computers. The Information Technology unit of an entity bears the responsibility for developing an address and a name model in the organization (Ash, 2007). The organization should use a common data center of around twenty-five backed enterprise servers and routers. All these servers should have a single data center operation. For easy identification and………………………………………….6pages