There are three bottlenecks to Wide Area Networks (WANs) that don't exist in other environments, and these are Bandwidth, Latency and Cost. (And in true three pronged problem fashion, you…
Bufferbloat – or why you need intelligent edge control of flows
As part of an investigation into several other things, my Internet research dredged up some work by Jim Gettys on Bufferbloat, which was related closely enough to my intended target…
State of the Network – a response
So Network Instruments have published their latest State of the Network report, and it makes for some worrying reading for network managers. The report is gathered from questionnaires answered by…
Impact under acceleration
So investigating some issues for the inks company today, I come across a problem that we've seen before with Junipers WX appliances.. A site has problems transferring data across the…
More problems with acceleration
So the consultant from the inks company phoned again, and needs a little help. Seems that the HP JetDirect printing to some of their sites has broken, since the transition…