Lindi Horton, Sales Engineer, NetQoS: Just some quick stuff as I type on my blackberry on the plan back from Networkers today. A big kudos goes out to [Graphic Designer] Ginger [McBride] for designing a shirt that everyone loves. I have seen a dozen “Certified Network Rockstar” shirts in the airport making them the consummate [...]
Archive | June, 2008
So – anyone planning to upgrade to Vista now?
Microsoft has, according to ComputerWorld, said that it will no longer sell Windows XP after the June 30, 2008 deadline – or next Monday, as of this blog’s posting. However, Microsoft has, according to InformationWeek, pledged to support Windows XP until 2014. Microsoft has also, according to NetworkWorld, confirmed a ship date of Windows 7 [...]
New Managed Services Offerings
By David Byrne, General Manager of Managed Services Our tools here at NetQoS deliver the capabilities and insight needed to understand what’s going on across the network from a performance perspective to improve application delivery. Some customers find it difficult to maximize the performance of their monitoring tools given the constant change they’re experiencing, which [...]
Latency and Jitter
By Kevin Davis Adapted from “Sources of Latency” Whitepaper When network users call the Help Desk to report poor application performance, you don’t typically hear things like “The router’s CPU is too busy!,” “The network utilization is above 70%!,” or “The carrier path has failed-over to a sub-optimal path.” Instead, what you’re likely to hear [...]
Brave Naomi
We’ll get back to network performance, routers, switches, IT and enterprises shortly, but something happened today and I think there’s someone out there that should deserve some recognition. So, before I tell you this story, I should tell you a little bit about the circumstances surrounding it. I’m 29 years old, weigh in at 300 [...]
Twitter, Network Performance, and Network Performance Daily
As you might notice, we’ve got a new “Twitter Live Feed” on the left sidebar of Network Performance Daily – this is being maintained by the thoroughly awesome Chandra Hosek, who gets to add the moniker “Twitter Wrangler” to her already impressive resume. You can also follow our Twitter at http://twitter.com/NetQoSLiveusing whatever twitter-following app you [...]
Routers are totally metal. (Or, at least, the metal parts of them are.)
Do you feel like we do… about application delivery and acceleration? If so, you’re either quite, quite lonely, or you’re probably headed to the next Cisco Live in Orlando, starting this Sunday, the 22nd of June, through the 26th. We’re going to be there – Ben Erwin will be giving a presentation called “A Strategic [...]
Waiting for Firefox
It’s Download Day. At 10:00 a.m. PDT, or noon, for us in Austin, Firefox 3.0 was released to the public in what the Mozilla foundation has dubbed “download day.” In fact, they’re attempting to set a Guinness World Record for “most downloads in a 24 hour period.” So, it was a bit of a concern [...]
3G iPhone shows bandwidth limiting, not data caps, actually work.
Apple’s new 3G iPhone will soon be issued to most of you. Ownership of the Apple 3G iPhone is mandatory. This message is brought to you by the Ministry of Cellphones, MiniCel. APPLE IS PEACE. FREEDOM IS NO THIRD PARTY APPS. NOT INCLUDING AN ACCESSIBLE BATTERY COMPARTMENT IS STRENGTH. The one concern is that AT&T’s [...]
But really, did you have to go with the double-“o”?
The article by Nick Carr that we referenced on Monday has come out. The article, “Is Google Making Us Stupid,” written by Nick Carr is not only in the Atlantic but is also the cover story, written as “Is Google Making Us Stoopid.” We understand that Carr is a good writer, that the article is [...]
The Application Delivery Engineer
Things used to be easy. No, wait. Things never used to be easy. In fact, they were horribly complex and frustrating to the point where engineers pull their hair out. But now we usually expect around 99.99umpteen% uptime from our network equipment. So frustration today often stems from the new tasks that enterprise IT engineers are [...]
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The other 3 percent must keep it around for the ambiance.
According to Network World, T-Mobile recently announced “T-Mobile @Home” which allows you to buy VoIP-to-the-home service from T-Mobile for $10/mo – assuming you don’t mind the $50 router and the 2 year lock-in contract. The interesting part of the article was that T-Mobile released a study that 97% of customers who had a landline service [...]