The speed of a network is generally defined as throughput: how many megabits or gigabits your network can pump through its pipes in the course of a second. That's certainly important, but there's ...

The job of a network engineer just keeps getting more complicated. Mission critical applications are competing for bandwidth. The sheer number of devices is exploding, driven by IoT. And the network ...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Kentik, the network observability company, today launched The Cloud Latency Map, a free public tool that allows anyone to explore the latencies measured between over ...

Videoconferencing has revealed to all of us how good—or poor—our Internet connections really are. However, if you’re just loading Web pages or reading email, it’s unlikely you can get a sense of ...

FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hurricane Electric, the world’s largest IPv6 Internet backbone and leading colocation provider, today announced the launch of a Layer 2 latency Tool to determine the ...

Network assurance tools, which use advanced analytics to optimize and automate network management, are becoming an essential component in every network team’s toolkit. Network assurance was once ...

Learn different ways to conduct a VoIP speed test at no cost, plus our best tips for making the most of your results. VoIP speed tests measure critical metrics (e.g., latency, jitter, packet loss, and ...

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With popular apps such as real-time streaming analytics, video conferencing, and even your company's Voice-over-IP (VoIP) traffic all becoming ever more latency-sensitive, digging into your network's ...