Throughput Analysis of Ethernet and Fiber Distributed Data Interface using OPNET IT Guru Academic Edition 9.1

Network performance is very important factor affecting telecommunication and distributed network applications. So this is crucial to understand overall network performance parameters such as throughput, delay and collision count. In all the experiments mentioned in this paper, some of the metrics has been benchmarked for evaluating network performance by creating two networks - Ethernet and Fiber Distributed Data Interface with the help OPNET IT Guru software. The tests were designed to measure a combination of network throughput, delay and collision count. The performance results provided interesting insights into the behavior of these networks under various load conditions. This paper covers the details about the experiments performed, their results and analysis of the performance.