COVID-19 forced an overnight shift upon us which facilitated a world-wide “work from home” for as many employees as deemed necessary and feasible. The initial hurdle for each IT department was to set up the basics to enable employees to get their work done – VPN tunneling was among them. …
A 2020 Dice survey of tech workers found roughly 53% preferred to work from home. Participants included employees of some of the world’s most admired technology companies, from Apple and Google to Microsoft. Many pundits are already speculating that remote work will become even more popular, not because of COVID-19,…
Why did we develop a Remote Workers Agent? COVID-19 came full swing in the US in the middle of March of 2020. We were suddenly bombarded with requests such as, “How do we use NetBeez to troubleshoot VPN issues” and “My boss says blaming my ISP for network issues is…
Run NetBeez on a Smart SFP I am happy to announce that NetBeez and PlumSpace, a vendor of Smart SFPs, have successfully tested an integration between the two company’s products. This integration enables PlumSpace users to install NetBeez agents on their Smart SFPs and gain the benefits of high performance…
With the rise of the remote work/telework, network engineers have shifted from being enablers of connectivity to drivers of productivity. As a former network engineer, I realize this isn’t a trivial shift. Given the impact the recent pandemic is having on the nature of the workplace, we need to consider…
We Are All Remote Workers Remote workers are on the rise. Over the past few weeks we have seen an escalation of events that led to a pandemic crisis. COVID-19 has taken the world by surprise. As a response, the world is moving from in person to remote. Any service…
How to Monitor SD-WAN There are several factors that should be considered when implementing an SD-WAN solution. One of them is network monitoring. In this post, we review some SD-WAN challenges and how network monitoring can help overcome them. Path Remediation and Failover One of the benefits of SD-WAN is…
What is Traceroute? Traceroute is an IP utility that discovers all the routers (or “routing hops”) between the source host that issues the command and the destination one. For each router, the command returns its IP address, Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) if available, and Round-Trip Time (RTT) to it….
What is Hybrid Multi-Cloud? Hybrid Multi-Cloud is a term used to denote an organization with a private, enterprise network, that has adopted two or more public cloud providers to host services. For example, a company could use Microsoft Azure Cloud to host its Sharepoint, Office 365, Outlook and Team applications…
