Key steps include investigating user complaints, examining endpoints, and monitoring device interfaces and traffic flows. I've been involved in network analysis with two customers recently who had ...

Interface packet loss provides indications of link problems that shouldn’t go ignored. But then you have to decide on an alerting threshold that indicates a problem without creating too many false ...

When you transmit information, the data is divided into smaller packets, which are then combined at the receiving end. The failure of these packets to reach their destination is known as Packet Loss.

Automated network monitoring involves scanning for device component failures and examining traffic patterns. Learn how to lighten the load of your network management responsibilities. Network device ...

A packet monitor, or network sniffer, is a program that lets you monitor the network traffic flowing over a computer's network devices down to the individual packet level. When Pktmon was first ...

Because of the limitations of SPAN/monitor ports on switches, organizations have turned to using taps and packet monitoring switches. These solutions can be expensive which has lead companies to look ...

Network monitoring for a corporate network is a critical IT function that can save money in network performance, employee productivity and infrastructure cost overruns. A network monitoring system ...

Networking performance monitoring and diagnostics (NPMD) software, whether running as an independent appliance or embedded in networking equipment, can help stave off productivity issues for internal ...

Network monitors are an absolute must-have for any network administrator. But which tool, out of the thousands, should you consider for your tool kit? Jack Wallen offers up his five favorites. Image: ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.–cPacket disclosed today that the Emergent Network Technology Testbed group at NASA Ames Research Center is utilizing cPacket’s cTap “intelligent network taps” for wire-speed ...