Packet shapers are not well known outside of network administrators’ offices, but they are necessary technology from now on. Without them, colleges would face a stark choice: Pay for tremendous ...

The demand for advanced services, such as Internet Protocol Virtual Private Networks (IP VPNs), application-level Quality of Service (QoS), data encryption, managed firewalls, and address translation, ...

Flow analysis can be great if you have a lot of WAN links and need an easy way to get top level visibility without the need for cables. Packet capture will give you a lot more detail at certain points ...

This is the third of a series of four newsletters where we’re sharing excerpts from the Webtorials Thought Leadership Discussion on WAN Virtualization. This series features a “virtual discussion” with ...

Scott Reeves demonstrates the flow graph feature of the Wireshark tool, which can help you check connections between client server, finding timeouts, re-transmitted frames, or dropped connections. I ...

The PPP (Point-to-Point Protocol) multiplexing/demultiplexing discussed in RFC 3153 is designed to reduce the size of the PPP header to increase throughput. PPP ...

Expands portfolio with PFS 2200 and PFS 4200 series to scale and accelerate cybersecurity applications WESTFORD, Mass., July 12, 2016 — NETSCOUT, a market leader in service assurance and cybersecurity ...