Here at Spring 2005 VON, I've been meeting with a lot of testing companies that help enterprises build and run their VoIP networks. To a person, they maintain that latency and dropped packets are two ...

What would happen if we couldn’t agree on the same time? Team meetings would never start on time. You might go catch a movie only to find it was over an hour earlier. Nothing would get done and the ...

Enterprises are deploying more security, monitoring and acceleration tools on their networks today. More data at higher velocities is coming at these tools and in a variety forms, including voice, ...

Network protocols are formal standards and policies consisting of rules, procedures, and formats that define how data is exchanged over networks. They ensure that devices can communicate effectively, ...

A team of researchers from MIT, Caltech, Harvard, and other universities in Europe, have devised a way of boosting the performance of wireless networks by up to 10 times -- without increasing ...

Packet capture will give you a lot more detail at certain points on your network. A combination of both can mean you detect bandwidth hogs easier, as well as reporting on what applications are in use ...

Capturing packets from computer networks can sometimes sound like an activity reserved for hackers and geeks. Looking at a stream of raw packets is not for the fainthearted, but thankfully there are a ...