Planning, designing and implementing an enterprise network in a developing nation

Odinma, Augustine C.; Butakov, Sergey; Grakhov, Evgeny; Bollou, Felix

doi:10.1504/ijenm.2008.018783

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“…In developing countries, these enterprise networks have one or more common characteristics, which include low budgetary costs, lack of skilled IT support personnel, inadequate and unreliable bandwidth, low complexity and unguaranteed QoS [8]. To achieve a successful IPv6 implementation at enterprise level, a preliminary study must be performed to evaluate required skills, deployment strategy as well as prepare a preliminary project.…”

Section: Enterprise Networkmentioning

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IPv4 to IPv6 Transition Strategies for Enterprise Networks in Developing Countries

Sansa-Otim

Mile

2013

Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering

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Abstract. Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) addresses have been reported to be nearing exhaustion and the next generation Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is gradually being deployed in the Internet. IPv6 provides a much larger address space, better address design and greater security, among other benefits. IPv6 deployment requires thorough and careful preparation to minimize network disruption and ensure that the benefits of IPv6 are obtained. The migration from IPv4 to IPv6 cannot be achieved in a short period thus the two protocols will co-exist for some time. Unfortunately, these two protocols are incompatible; hence for them to co-exist, various IPv4-to-IPv6 transition mechanisms have been developed. In this paper, we analyse the different site-to-site tunneling mechanisms through a theoretical and experimental evaluation to study their appropriateness in IPv6 deployment for enterprise networks in developing countries. Using five performance metrics, namely: endto-end delay, jitter, throughput, packet loss and CPU utilization, our experimental results indicate that Configured Tunneling performs better than the other tunneling mechanisms. This study is of importance to those enterprise networks which want to implement IPv6 and are concerned about which transition mechanisms to embrace depending on the performance requirements.

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Section: Enterprise Networkmentioning

confidence: 99%

IPv4 to IPv6 Transition Strategies for Enterprise Networks in Developing Countries

Sansa-Otim

Mile

2013

Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering

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“…If we focus on education, we observe that most educational institutions are trying to provide Internet connectivity for students and faculty members. While in developed nations, broadband Internet access is taken for granted, it is an expensive resource in developing nations mainly because of a lack of public IT infrastructure (Odinma, Butakov, Grakhov, & Bollou, 2008). As countries in sub-Saharan Africa are currently not benefiting fully from major transcontinental optical lines, contracting with a satellite Internet service provider (ISP) is therefore the only way to obtain global connectivity.…”

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Improving the browsing experience in a bandwidth limited environment through traffic management

Odinma

Butakov

Grakhov

2011

Information Technology for Development

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The aim of this paper is to share our experiences with the establishment of a cost-effective policy for the utilization of limited infrastructure resources in developing nations. In particular, this paper discusses a case study of the American University of Nigeria that provides an example of the successful management of limited Internet bandwidth among a large group of users. Data from an Internet proxy server were studied to determine how traffic was allocated to different categories of digital content. The results from this study show that only a tiny fraction of expensive bandwidth was used for resources directly related to education. To address bandwidth limitations, a restrictive policy was proposed as a solution to improve the user browsing experience while not compromising access to critical resources. Preliminary policy implementation trials restricting certain applications, such as downloading large files and prohibiting Peer-to-Peer (P2P) traffic, indicated good results. The study also shows very positive financial implications of the proposed policy. These results show that limited investments in infrastructure management can significantly reduce the running expenses of the project, which facilitates its sustainability. The results of this study are of particular interest to other institutions and companies in developing nations that are facing similar expensive bandwidth problems.

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Scherbinin

2009

Computers & Education

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Planning, designing and implementing an enterprise network in a developing nation

Cited by 8 publications

References 17 publications

IPv4 to IPv6 Transition Strategies for Enterprise Networks in Developing Countries

IPv4 to IPv6 Transition Strategies for Enterprise Networks in Developing Countries

Improving the browsing experience in a bandwidth limited environment through traffic management

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