Abstract:
To provide Voice and Video services over Internet Protocol (IP) has provoked the
network service providers to adopt and develop such a network technology which
provides manageability comes with efficiency. Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS)
is an evolving network technology which provides speed, efficiency and manageability.
Transferring voice and video have been there before MPLS, Asynchronous Transfer
Mode (ATM) was providing voice and video services requires separate ATM network to
manage and operate. As MPLS is there so transferring the voice and video over IP over
MPLS is the hot topic among the service providers. The thesis provides traffic analysis of
voice, video and data services on IP, MPLS-LDP and MPLS-RSVP based networks. The
thesis assists the service provider industry in the understanding of a MPLS network
working and the benefits of using MPLS-RSVP in their core networks. The thesis
includes implementation of a service provider core network in a lab and analysis of
packet per second and bits per second of FTP (file transfer protocol) and video
conferencing traffic on each OSPF, MPLS-LDP and MPLS-RSVP. The results showed
that by implementing MPLS-RSVP a network service provider can decrease the running
time of routing lookup decisions and enhance the overall efficiency of the network even
better than MPLS-LDP. MPLS-RSVP has not been adopted by service providers due to
its unreliability that is why it is also suggested to use MPLS-RSVP over MPLS-LDP.
