Evaluación de los protocolos de señalización y enrutamiento en redes de transporte IP/MPLS interoperables con soporte para tráfico multimedia.

Abstract

The current work was aimed to assess the signaling and routing protocols in interoperable IP/MPLS transport networks with support for multimedia traffic. The OPNET MODELER tool was used in this research, where different configurations were carried out in the proposed scenarios with Multiprotocol Label Switch (MPLS). Additionally, the interior gateway routing protocols were used, such as Intermediate System to Intermediate System IS-IS and Open Shortest Path First OSPF. In addition, the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) exterior gateway protocol was used for communication between different autonomous systems. This platform has applications that allowed evaluating the quality of service applying traffic engineering, the proposed tests were configured with the internet protocol version 4 (IPv4), and multimedia content was simulated for the respective analysis. The MPLS protocol turned out to be very efficient for transmitting data at the level of WAN networks, being a widely used option for services that need a high rate of transfer speed or real-time applications such as video streaming or IP telephony. Therefore, evaluating the technical operation using the scenarios proposed with the internet protocol version 6 (IPv6) is recommended.