Kevin Davis, a senior consultant at NetQoS, will be presenting a few training sessions at Symposium about SuperAgent, the end-to-end response time module of the NetQoS Performance Center. This will include a training session about how to use time-based network metrics in troubleshooting. He talks about his upcoming training session below. In the session, I’m [...]
Archive | April, 2008
Interview with Gerald Combs, original author of Wireshark.
Gerald Combs is the original author and lead developer of the open-source, multi-platform, Wireshark network protocol analyzer. Combs works for CACE Technologies – a company which makes products that compliment Wireshark. Today he mostly takes care of the administrative parts of the project but still does development as well, and he controls the version numbers [...]
Havening problems communicating at the help desk.
These are some of the notes sent to Tier two support from the help desk by a man who is referred to as “George,” on a Web site called: “The Chronicles of George” [Name] is havening problems with getting on to network,shesays she gets nocked of the network. [Name] is havening problems connectioning to the [...]
Cisco Beefs Up WAN and Application Acceleration Materials
There’s been a lot of growth (and attendant hype) in technology areas like WAN optimization and application acceleration over the past few years, and for good reason. Anything that helps companies speed up and reduce the risk of strategic IT initiatives like consolidating data centers, turning up new branches or serving an increasingly mobile [...]
Podcast: Prof. Michael Geist of the University of Ottawa on Bell Canada’s traffic shaping
We’ve recently covered Bell Canada throttling P2P service. Today, in this podcast, we speak to Professor Michael Geist, Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law at the University of Ottawa, regarding the controversial move by Bell Canada to use traffic shaping on wholesale service providers. A transcript of this podcast will be provided at [...]
U.S. falling behind in broadband; enough is enough
Editorial by Brian Boyko Editor, Network Performance Daily The dateline reads “4 April 2008.” And it’s yet another story – this time from the BBC – about how American broadband adoption trails the world. This may be news to BBC’s U.K., general knowledge audience, but how many times has this issue been covered by how [...]
Preview of Joel Trammell’s Welcoming Address at Symposium 2008
Joel Trammell, CEO of NetQoS will be producing the welcoming address at NetQoS Symposium 2008. We asked him a few quick questions about what he’ll be talking about when Symposium starts April 20, 2008. NPD: This year’s welcome address is called: “Why networks fail and why the role of the network engineer is secure.” Could [...]
Canadian Bell’s throttling raises uncomfortable neutrality questions
Traffic shaping is not a tool of the devil, nor do we believe the solution to bandwidth problems is simply to provision more dark fiber and build more underground fiber optic lines. But as time has gone on, the issues around network neutrality have become more pronounced. For example, Bell Canada has been throttling P2P [...]
Google Docs Offline
It’s been hinted at and talked about for a year and a half, when Garett Rogers Rogers at ZDNet pored through Google Docs source code and found references to “localhost” in the code. Now Google Docs, through Google Gears, is available as an offline application. Word processing “in the cloud” isn’t that new an idea [...]
If there’s a NetQoS logo on the product, we own the issue.
by Joel Trammell CEO, NetQoS We’ve been hearing some rumors that some customers and prospective customers have been told that some NetQoS-branded products might not come with the same level of service and support that customers expect from NetQoS. First, NetQoS has earned some amazing customer approval ratings – a First Market Research report found [...]
NetQoS Destructobot™ Enforces Network Performance SLA Agreements
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Two-story tall monstrosity of metal automatically finds application performance problems, destroys problems at source. AUSTIN – April 1, 2008 – As network teams seek to ensure continued application performance according to the service level agreements entered into with backbone network providers, it becomes harder to make sure that you get the [...]
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Something’s Rotten in the State of Denmark.
I’d make a better pun, but just about the only things that come to mind when I think of Denmark are Hamlet and the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons, and I can’t draw. So, here goes: Tis a fault to heaven, A fault against the dead, a fault to nature, To reason most absurd – King Claudius, [...]