When figuring out what’s happening with an errant internet connection, most folks turn to online or app-based speed tests, most notably the venerable gold standard, Speedtest.net by Ookla, for initial ...

Cisco ThousandEyes gains Code BGP’s real-time detection of BGP hijacking, route leaks and other BGP performance and security issues. Aiming to bolster its assessment of Internet traffic health, Cisco ...

Keeping your network healthy can be surprisingly tricky. One moment everything’s smooth, and the next your connection crawls, apps hang, and you’re staring at the spinning beachball of doom. When that ...

When managing a communications network, no matter how large or small, it is essential to know how well the network is performing. Network fault monitoring enables organizations to detect, recover from ...

In this series of articles, I am looking at how to monitor my home/home lab LAN. In my first article, I probed my network to see what devices were on it and where they were located. In my next article ...

Network operations staff work to maintain the health and operational performance of a network infrastructure. As such, they rely on several tools that assist with management and maintenance tasks. The ...

The lights on the dashboards that monitor network and application performance are flashing green, indicating all is well. At the same time, however, frustrated employees are filing trouble tickets ...

It’s a five-alarm fire for your business, with critical applications knocked offline and operations grinding to a halt. Your top engineers are working furiously to fix the outage, poring over every ...

Keeping an eye on your Mac’s network activity can save you from headaches. Whether it’s catching a rogue app gobbling bandwidth or ensuring your office Macs stay secure. After all, we don’t want to ...