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…
Importance of QoS TL;DR: In this article I want to provide a simple way to troubleshoot and validate QoS. All networks are not created the same. Every business has a different set of needs and requirements. How do you ensure your critical services and applications are receiving the highest priority…
Everybody understands the importance of having network monitoring tools in place. However, which tools should you consider to support your network infrastructure and, most importantly, your end-users? There are many tools on the market, probably hundreds of them, and choosing the right one is not very easy. If you actually…