Packet Loss and Round-Trip Time Packet loss and round-trip time are two important network performance metrics that affect the throughput of TCP connections. Real-time monitoring these two values across a...
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ONUG Fall 2019 I am happy to announce that this October NetBeez is presenting at the ONUG Fall 2019 event in New York City. If you haven’t heard about ONUG...
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By Brian Chee with material from papers and proposals by the researchers of the Aloha Cabled Observatory. The History of the observatory: The Aloha Cabled Observatory (ACO) began over twenty...
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What is network monitoring? Network monitoring is a type of software application that verifies the correct functioning of network devices, such as routers, switches, and servers. The goal of network...
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What is WiFi EasyMesh? The WiFi Alliance is taking the lead in many new initiatives around WiFi standards. A few months ago, they announced the WiFi Protected Access protocol Version...
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Introduction perfSONAR is an open source toolkit used for running network performance tests across different network domains. The need for such a tool originated at Research and Education (R&E) institutions...
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Network Engineers are Impaired by Lack of Network Monitoring In recent months, I have had several conversations with many network engineers to get their perspective on enterprise networks, network monitoring, and troubleshooting. These interactions were very beneficial for learning how much time they spend troubleshooting, which tools and procedures they…
Network managers leading a team of engineers in support of a large enterprise network don’t have an easy job! On the one hand, there is complexity that the engineers have to deal with due to running a large Wide Area Network where remote locations are connected back to the data…
When an IT support ticket is passed to the network engineering group, one of the first steps in the troubleshooting process is to verify whether it is the network that is causing the problem or not. Especially when it’s not obvious to the naked eye that it’s the network’s fault….
Across all levels of education, the typical classroom is becoming more high-tech and more connected. During a typical lecture the instructor might play a short video from YouTube, ask students to take a pop-quiz on their laptops, or he/she might be teaching the class remotely. On top of that, campuses…