Zero Comprehension: Cisco Edge Quest – a review of Cisco’s WAN-Edge marketing...
by Brian “Scrabble” Boyko Editor, Network Performance Daily When a company like Cisco goes into “new media marketing,” it doesn’t mess around. To promote the Cisco ASR 1000 WAN-edge router, it started...
View ArticleCanadian Bell’s throttling raises uncomfortable neutrality questions
Traffic shaping is not a tool of the devil, nor do we believe the solution to bandwidth problems is simply to provision more dark fiber and build more underground fiber optic lines. But as time has...
View ArticleSymposium Preview: Kevin Davis on Time-based Troubleshooting.
Kevin Davis, a senior consultant at NetQoS, will be presenting a few training sessions at Symposium about SuperAgent, the end-to-end response time module of the NetQoS Performance Center. This will...
View ArticleNetwork Management and WAN Optimization Go Hand in Hand
By Ben Erwin Even the WAN optimization vendors are starting to realize that WAN optimization’s utility is diminished without visibility into the network. Riverbed’s recent announcement shows that they,...
View ArticleLatency and Jitter
By Kevin Davis Adapted from “Sources of Latency” Whitepaper When network users call the Help Desk to report poor application performance, you don’t typically hear things like “The router’s CPU is too...
View ArticleDoing It Wrong
Reprinted from TheDailyWTF.com: At my company, there’s a bit of a wall between Application Development and Network Operations. All “network and network-service related issues” must be reported through...
View ArticleA few of a many, or many of a few?
Ken Church, Albert Greenberg and James Hamilton of Microsoft recently put out a paper on “Delivering Embarrassingly Distributed Cloud Services.”[PDF] Like most papers of this type, it’s a dry read, but...
View ArticleCisco’s MXE 3000 and video optimization
My day job is covering networking innovations and trends, but I moonlight as a video editor, director, and producer, so I was personally really excited to hear what Cisco was doing with the Cisco...
View ArticleInformation Asymmetry and the Art of Subcompact Maintenance
My car, a Ford Taurus from 2000, with 120k miles on it, is dying. The check engine light went from a manageable steady golden hue, indicating need of expensive repair, to intermittent blinks which...
View ArticleXP, Virtually
An interesting post over at Slashdot pointed me over to a Network World story by Mitchell Ashley about how Windows 7 wouldn’t be a compelling upgrade from Windows XP. The interesting aspect is that...
View ArticleIllustrating TCP Slow Start and WAN Optimization with Mr. Packet
We’ve produced a follow-up to our earlier “The Network Company” video, this time looking at LAN vs. WAN application coding, TCP Slow Start, and WAN Optimization. Instead of giving you a detailed...
View Article“Your Mileage May Vary.”
In “Good Math, Bad Math,” Ph.D. carrying, Google-employed, shmartypants Mark Chu-Carroll talks about how math can be used, incorrectly, to mislead people into having expectations that do not match up...
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