Archive | April, 2007

Schooled By Vint Cerf

By Brian Boyko, Editor, Network Performance Daily. Perhaps more than anyone else, Vint Cerf is the creator of the Internet. He co-designed the TCP/IP protocol when he was working at DARPA, and currently serves as the chairman of ICANN. Of E-Week’s Top 100 Most Influential People in IT, he ranks at #20. Among the geek [...]

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CEO Joel Trammell’s Keynote Presentation from NetQoS Symposium 2007

For those of you who missed our NetQoS Symposium, we were able to get film of NetQoS CEO Joel Trammell’s keynote presentation on how to approach IT executives with network performance concerns. Below is the embedded video.

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Thursday Links: Net Neutrality Insights, Hyperspace research (no, really!), Faster Internet 2, and Amero Sentence delayed – at Prosecution request

Richi Jennings: Thoughts on Network Neutrality & The Monash Report: The Two Internets There’s an interesting look at network neutrality and network performance. The Monash Report proposes the idea of two separate Internets – one “Jeffersonian,” dumb and neutral, designed to provide the same level of service to all publishers and companies big and small, [...]

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NetQoS ReporterAnalyzer 7.4 and QoS Validation

By John Mao We recently released NetQoS ReporterAnalyzer 7.4. This new version was originally conceived as a maintenance release but after talking with customers, we thought it was a good idea to update some QoS policy-related features. Part of the overall value proposition for ReporterAnalyzer is the ability to validate QoS implementation. Many companies want [...]

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Tuesday Links: Romer’s “Dawn of the Ted,” Bits. In. Spaaaaace., Wake on WAN, and Monkeycluster networking.

Ted Romer: Should Have Gone With Cisco.com NetQoS’s own Ted Romer has started up a new blog about networking with Cisco products. Entitled “Should Have Gone With Cisco,” the current offerings include his worklog of his MPLS test. First take a look at the BGP vrf configuration for CUSTOMER_A. We are redistributing EIGRP and any [...]

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The reports of the death of the network engineer are greatly exaggerated.

By Brian Boyko Allan Leinwand at GigaOM has written a story entitled “Web 2.0 & Death of the Network Engineer” about meeting with the CTO of an unnamed Web 2.0 company. There, the CTO said: “The Internet is like electricity. We plug into it and all of the things that you mention are already there [...]

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Being Tron Malkovitch – or This Is Your Brain On Netcosm

By Dr. Mike Johns, NetQoS Product Research Engineer, Netcosm designer Netcosm started as a bunch of yellow blocks flying between purple blocks. But even at that early stage, the reaction took me by surprise. People from everywhere in the company stopped by to take a look. The reaction from the Internet at large has also [...]

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Thursday Links: Intuit, Ubuntu, RIM… Everyone Is Having A Bad Network Day.

What is going on? It seems everyone is having trouble with their networks – or at least the part of the network that faces the Internet. Feel free to chime in below – we want to hear your theories on this. Even humor/news Web site Fark.com was down for quite a while. CNNMoney: Late filers [...]

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Tuesday Links: One Tool To Rule Them All, Cisco invests in Avega, Researchers consider scrapping the ‘net, and DST problems lead to wrongful arrest.

Network World: Users demand better net hardware mgmt. Hardware vendors have long supplemented their gear with management applications – take CiscoWorks, for example – but industry watchers say the trend is to make gear easier to manage alongside competitive hardware and by third-party software applications such as CA Unicenter, HP OpenView and IBM Tivoli. This [...]

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Cats. In sinks. – Adventures in Network Engineering

By Eric Hanson When I got out of the military in late 2000, I came to Austin to make my riches in the tech world. I got here just in time to see the tech bubble burst. Fortunately, I was able to sign on with a law firm in one of its remote offices as [...]

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Editorial: Greetings, Professor Falken. Would you like to play a game?

Netcosm may look like a video game. But it’s not. It may have explosions and fire, but while it looks like Space Invaders, it isn’t Space Invaders. Netcosm is an experiment in network data visualization designed to provide a “low cognitive burden” visual metaphor. In other words, it is meant to be as simple to [...]

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Thursday Links: British Spellings and Netcosm quotes

Silicon.com: Know Your Network This collection of networking horror stories includes a quote from our CEO, Joel Trammell. They misspelled his name as “Trammel” but that’s okay because they’re British. They spell a lot of words differently in the U.K. Joel Trammel, CEO of NetQoS, said: “Increasing bandwidth is not a panacea for solving performance [...]

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