Archive | April, 2007

NetQoS Symposium, Day III

Our NetQoS Symposium continues into the third day. Here’s a rundown of today’s events: First, at 8:00 a.m., there’s the registration and breakfast. Then, at 8:30 a.m. in the Darrell Royal Ballroom, Dr. Cathy Fulton, CTO of NetQoS is going to be presenting our third keynote, entitled “Maintaining Visibility in a World of WAN Optimization.” [...]

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Why Netcosm is not a product… yet.

Netcosm has recieved so much interest and response that people are wondering why we’re not offering this as a product or at least offering it as a demo. The truth is, Netcosm is a cool piece of software developed in our research labs, and we wanted to show people some of the cool technologies we [...]

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NetQoS Symposium, Day II

Our NetQoS Symposium continues into a second day. Here’s a rundown of today’s events: First, at 8:00 a.m., there’s the registration and breakfast. Then, at 8:30 a.m. in the Darrell Royal Ballroom, Issy Ben-Shaul from Cisco is going to be presenting our second keynote, entitled “A Multi-Layered Approach to WAN Optimization and Application Acceleration.” At [...]

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The Slashdot/Digg Effect, Visually

What happens when a high profile Web site links to your site? “Slashdotted.” “The Digg Effect.” Even “Farked.” A product announcement, a cool blog post (on Dungeons and Dragons, perhaps?) and your server gets a sudden spike in traffic. Ever wonder what that looks like? Sure, you could graph it, but have you ever wondered [...]

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You’ve never seen a network performance management tool like this. (Unless, of course, you’ve seen Tron.)

Netcosm is a three dimensional video game-like graphical representation of your network and the traffic that traverses it. Initially developed in NetQoS Performance Labs as an experiment in low cognitive burden network monitoring, it allows you to view at a glance the health of the network. Sure, you could get the information from viewing text-based [...]

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Putting Performance First at NetQoS Symposium

From Network Performance Daily Editor, Brian Boyko. Tomorrow officially begins NetQoS’s three day annual symposium at Barton Creek Resort. We’ll be using this blog to keep you apprised of daily events, to share lessons learned, and provide commentary as events unfold. As for me, I’ll be videotaping Joel Trammell’s opening presentation on Tuesday morning from [...]

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Editorial: The value of a good error message.

By Brian Boyko Until recently, I underestimated the value of a good error message. Recently, I wrote two articles for HardOCP detailing my experiences with Ubuntu Linux and with Windows Vista. Both have flaws and high points, and I’m not going to get into playing the “which OS is better” game. But there is one [...]

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Thursday Links: I got nuttin’

First, an apology to the readers. Usually I try to add some entertaining, humorous commentary that make you want to read more, brightens up your day and sometimes makes the oftentimes dry world of IT news a little easier to swallow. But today we’ve got some comments on IT management from Network World, an instructional [...]

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Dungeons & Dragons and IT Part II: Rules Lawyers and Tech-evangelists

By Brian Boyko “D20 is a horrible menace and must be stopped!” Yes, I’ve written those words – or something quite like them – and quite regret them. Partially because d20 is not a horrible menace, partially because it engenders a level of relative urgency and loathing that are absurd when talking about d20, and [...]

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Tuesday links: VoIP Monitoring, Can-you-hear-me-now?, DST a bust, and Cisco’s Small-biz focus

ComputerWeekly.com: VoIP network monitoring improves VoIP deployment As a company that makes and sells network monitoring solutions, we are forced to reluctantly concur with this Computer Weekly article, which encourages the purchase and use of network monitoring solutions. The research has revealed that companies believe that VoIP applications… change too fast for network hardware to [...]

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The Evolution of IPv6

By Dr. Cathy Fulton In the beginning, Al Gore created the Internet. (Okay, I have to be fair, Vint Cerf has given Al Gore a lot of credit for his work in government.) IP version 4 was created back in 1981, and in August of 1990, at an IETF meeting, three individuals predicted that the [...]

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