Reviews

In modern cloud-centric applications, the connection can be split into three main segments: Local LAN Public Internet Cloud network When the Network Engineer realizes that the fault lies in the public Internet, that is never good news. A local LAN problem can usually be pinpointed fairly quickly and solved. Similarly, …

Voice Over IP (VoIP) is a ubiquitous service in today’s enterprises. This poses challenges on the network due to the specific requirements for voice packets, not to mention the immediate user complaints when the voice system does not perform close to perfection. Troubleshooting a voice issue is a completely different story if compared …

There is a strong need for extending the network visibility and monitoring up to the end-users: this is exactly what ThousandEyes Agent Endpoint provides.

When we reviewed Kentik Detect last year, the main issue we had with the product was its alerting feature. In the time since then Kentik has not only improved on this feature, but they’ve added more functionality to it too. In this review we’ll cover how you can use Kentik’s Alerting feature to detect …

In this article, we will be comparing two security products – pfSense and the Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA), to help you in choosing the right firewall for your network. We will take each product individually, looking at their pros and cons, and also discuss what scenario(s) they can be …

Recently we reviewed Kentik Detect, a very customizable, flexible and scalable cloud based NetFlow collector. Today we’ll be reviewing Kentik’s Network Performance Monitor (NPM) solution, which offers a new host monitoring agent in conjunction with Kentik Detect and gives users an even deeper level of network visibility.   What is Network Performance …

How many times – when connecting to a wireless network – you experienced: Wi-Fi connection problems Slow Wi-Fi data transfer Wi-Fi misconfigurations ALL OF THE ABOVE! 🙁 Over the past couple of years, Wi-Fi has become the most common and ubiquitous way to connect your devices to the Internet. Unfortunately, this …

Have you ever had your network not working properly with no idea about why that was happening? We have all been there. In those moments, I wished I had a way to get more visibility into the network, especially now that cloud applications have become so popular. Nowadays, the typical …

How many times have you wished a smarter version of BGP for your multi-homed network? The first version of BGP (RFC-1105) was formalised in 1989, when the Internet was just at the early stage in terms of size and capabilities. Many years (and four versions) later, we are still stuck with this …