Bandwidth Caps and The Cognitive Surplus
by Brian Boyko Editor, Network Performance Daily Time Warner Cable has rolled out its plan to cap the data of high-speed Internet subscribers in Beaumont, Texas, a town about 20 miles west of the...
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 Article2009: The Year Video-over-IP, Flying Cars take off.
Steve Taylor and Larry Hettick at Network World recently talked to the CEO of VBrick systems, which sells video over IP appliances – and suggested that corporate networks should be engineered for video...
View ArticlePower Corrupts. Network Power Management is kind of neat.
The Cisco EnergyWise solution, which we wrote about earlier when it was unveiled at CiscoLive! in Barcelona, is starting to gather some attention. For example, the Forrester Infrastructure Blog...
View ArticleI’m on the server side. I don’t know what side you’re on.
This is the penultimate punch line in today’s “Penny-Arcade” Webcomic. It is in reference to a company called “OnLive” which promises to use virtualization and cloud computing to provide broadband,...
View ArticleHow Data Caps Kill Your Performance, Part 2 of 3
Part 2: Killing Network Performance So, let’s take a look at what Time Warner is doing and compare it to some other offerings. First, Time Warner has four plans, at four speeds with four caps. While a...
View ArticleIn Soviet Swarm Programming Language, World “Hello”s You!
Distributed computation has been around a while in different forms – Beowulf clusters, for example, – but Ian Clarke, the developer of Freenet and founder of Revver, has started working on a...
View ArticleInternet Everything
A study by L.E.K. consulting, a business strategy and marketing consulting firm, recently conducted a survey on media consumption habits; and what they foundturned out to be a bit of a shock. According...
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Application performance, network engineers and Cisco Live - Going to Cisco...
Network managers in the know realize they must master the art of optimized application performance just as they conquered Cisco router configuration. The application performance related job duty fell...
View ArticleAutomation, virtual capabilities put the super in SuperAgent 9.0 - CA...
CA Technologies recently made available an updated version of CA NetQoS SuperAgent, an application response time monitoring product the company acquired with NetQoS. Used to determine the source of...
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Social networking communities make for better software products - CA NetQoS...
Social networking communities aren’t just about sharing photos and posting silly statuses. In the realm of enterprise software, online communities serve as virtual user groups in which members can pose...
View ArticleThe Paradigm Shift: Software Defined Networks, Software Driven Networks and...
In a recent blog entry, Harry Quackenboss from Layerz NGN makes some interesting and apropos points regarding the present and evolving world of Software Defined Networks and Software Driven Networks...
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