Archive | May, 2009

Webinar on ROI with Forrester Consulting Tomorrow

Tomorrow, at 1:00 EST, NetQoS will be hosting a live Webcast with a guest speaker from Forrester Consulting, who will be talking about the recent study we commissioned with them, titled: “The Total Economic Impact™ of NetQoS Performance Center.” – in other words, the return on investment of monitoring your network.  The study illustrates the [...]

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The Need for Rural Broadband

“I can’t fix any of them if I can’t get an exploded diagram, a shop manual, a parts list, and order parts.” “Right now I’ve got 14k on my dialup, when it works!” the machinist lamented. “You can’t download anything at 14k. It runs for two hours and gets halfway through one page and stops!” [...]

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M is for the megabytes she downloads.

Sunday is Mother’s day in the United States, and I’m pretty sure I’m going to forget to call her.  Sorry, Mom.  My mom, if you’ll believe it, is a complete technophobe, who doesn’t really understand what I do for a living; she kind of understands what a “blog” is, but the technical nature of networking [...]

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That’s great, it starts with an earthquake: Is the Internet dying?

Johna Till Johnson, president and senior founding partner of Nemertes Research, writes in a column for Network World that “The Internet Sky Really Is Falling.” Nemertes Research, if you’ll remember, published a report saying that the Internet’s backbone simply can’t handle exponential growth with linear capacity increases. “We’ve been called everything from carrier shills to [...]

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A week and a half til’ Interop Vegas.

In this economic climate, (which, apparently, the economic equivalent of Siberian Permafrost,) companies may be tempted to cut back on travel and expenses. But Interop’s already spent the deposit with Mandalay Bay, so they’re going to go ahead with it in a week and a half. Anyway, it’s unsurprising that I, personally, will not be [...]

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Illustrating TCP Slow Start and WAN Optimization with Mr. Packet

We’ve produced a follow-up to our earlier “The Network Company” video, this time looking at LAN vs. WAN application coding, TCP Slow Start, and WAN Optimization. Instead of giving you a detailed run-down, I’m just going to go ahead and embed it right here. I love any day when I get to smash citrus with [...]

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It’s kind of a slow news day; Google mows with goats.

When Slashdot posts about Google’s Mountain View Headquarters mowing their lawns with goats, (preceded by “The Manga Guide to Databases.” it’s a relatively slow news day in the tech world; still, here are some short links you may have missed between fighting off Bacon Lung. Steve Brown over at Network Instruments alerted me that they’ve [...]

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Only coming through in waves

Hello. Is there anybody in there? Just nod if you can hear me. Is there anyone home? Network World, via Slashdot, has a story by John Cox talking about how a number of companies with Wireless LANs are finding that as Wi-Fi became more prevalent, they don’t actually use wired networking equipment quite as much; [...]

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