NEW Scenario -- Video Traffic

From: Abh Tho (ieaspirant@gmail.com)
Date: Tue Aug 26 2008 - 18:20:50 ART


Folks,

I have a real-world question.

Following is the situation:

1) 2 Core Data Centers (Philly & Houston) providing content
2) Core Data centers downlink to ISP is DS3 (45 Mbps)
3) SP Cloud is MPLS based VPN
4) Basically, all this is in an MPLS-based VPN intranet
5) The customer-side is T1 (or) DSL
6) This network is supposed to be delivering web-based Video content
7) There're 2 Secondary Data-centers (In Texas) that will pull the
content from the core & then deliver to the customer location
(US-wide)

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Data Center_1_Philly Data_Center_2(Houston, Tx)

     | |
     | DS3 45Mpbs | DS3 45Mpbs
     | |

 ====================================

            PROVIDER MPLS CLOUD

(Secondary Data Center)

 ====================================

     | |
     | T1 1.54 Mbps | DSL 750 Kbpd
     | |

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Questions:

1) Can we deliver the video (which is going to be in the form of 30
mins video clips) ?

2) What are the BEST DESIGN practises to follow for multimedia network
design ( what are good resources/ books) ?

3) How to TEST this type of a network in a LAB ?

4) What tools could be used to simulate this scenario w/ traffic ?

5) How's capacity planning done (in general) ? (By small to medium
scale companies)

Thanks in advance & I look fwd to having a resourceful discussion.

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