Network Performance Daily covers anything and everything that affects your network performance, from the mundane to the bizarre. Established in October 2006, NPD provides commentary and original reporting on network monitoring, traffic analysis, troubleshooting, WAN optimization, VoIP monitoring, network performance management techniques, and the "out-of-left-field" issues that can come up in today's strange world of IT.

Some highlights include our coverage of Network Neutrality, the viability of Linux in the workplace, Windows Vista's TCP/IP stack and other typical concerns. We've also, however, covered the Julie Amero case and its implications for the responsibility of IT on security, and the art of Wafaa Bilal, who uses the Internet to illustrate the dehumanization of distance, something that will become more important to IT as server rooms become more consolidated and physical distance from the end-user increases.

Since Network Performance Daily was launched in October 2006, we've received over 185,000 unique visitors as of June 2007, and have been linked to by the Washington Post, Network World, PC World, ComputerWorld, LinuxToday, the Huffington Post, BoingBoing.net, The Register, Security Focus, Ars Technica, Eweek, DailyKos, and have been on the front page of Digg.com and Programming.reddit.com and Dzone.com. Most notably, we've been listed on Slashdot six times since the blog's inception.

Network Performance Daily is also the official company blog of NetQoS, Inc., the fastest-growing provider of network performance management products and services. NetQoS delivers scalable performance-based network management products that quantify the three metrics required to manage the network for application performance. NetQoS helps companies manage application performance, troubleshoot problems, and understand the impact of change on networks.

It is a collective effort of the network performance experts at NetQoS, edited by Brian Boyko with oversight by Dr. Cathy Fulton, CTO and Joel Trammell, CEO of NetQoS.