Enterprises are deploying more security, monitoring and acceleration tools on their networks today. More data at higher velocities is coming at these tools and in a variety forms, including voice, ...

WANs connect smaller networks across long distances, and their architecture, protocols and technologies have evolved to their latest incarnation, SD-WAN. People want to connect to all of their apps ...

Packet-switching networks -- networks which break data up into chunks called packets before transport -- help make your business communications stable and efficient. Once used only for data ...

For network admins and network security professionals, one of the most important tools to learn to use is Wireshark (formerly Ethereal), a free and open source network analyzer/packet sniffer software ...

The phrase "sniff the network" may conjure Orwellian visions of a Big Brother network administrator reading people's private email messages. Before anyone uses Wireshark, an organization should ensure ...

Discover the key types of network traffic and their role in optimizing performance plus real-world examples to see how they impact data flow. Identifying network traffic types is vital because it ...

Imagine this: you're sitting in your local coffee shop sucking down your morning caffeine fix before heading into the office. You catch up on your work e-mail, you check Facebook and you upload that ...

When your car starts to get sluggish you pop the bonnet and check the individual components underneath. So why is it that when our networks start to run slow the components are often the last thing ...

When you transmit information, the data is divided into smaller packets, which are then combined at the receiving end. The failure of these packets to reach their destination is known as Packet Loss.