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TotalView v11: Major SecOps Optimization & Security Awareness Features

Our company was founded over a decade ago to automate network intelligence, and we have some exciting news to share ...
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The Case of the Missing Phone

The executives pile into the conference room and notice that something is missing. “Where’s the phone?” The high-end ...
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The Heroes of System Administrator Appreciation Day

For System Administrator Appreciation Day, we asked our customers and many other SysAdmins to submit a story about ...
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Why Is Troubleshooting Packet Loss So Hard?

Most network monitoring systems don’t dig deep enough into the network to see all of the error counters. With most ...
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What Do Telecom Engineers Think About at Lunchtime (Jitter Buffers)

Maybe it is just because lunch is a big deal in my town (Silicon Valley), but I like to think about how to improve life ...
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IoT Device Security and Monitoring

Who Is Talking to Whom Using IoT Devices? Where Is Your Data Going? You may have many IoT devices on your network, yet ...
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Total Network Security™

As network engineers, we occasionally empty our favorite adult beverage and discuss "what’s missing in the world of ...
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How Do You Find a Cable Fault?

If you had a bad cable causing problems in your network, would you know it? How fast could you find and fix the ...
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The Dark Ages of Network Monitoring Need to Come to an End: Networks Should Be Invisible

The history of technology is replete with stories of continuous improvements that aim to make the technology seamless ...
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Jumbo Frames and VoIP/UC

Getting stuck at a railroad crossing with a super-long freight train can test anyone’s patience. In some cases, this ...
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Troubleshooting SIP Trunks

Notice: This blog entry has nothing to do with elephants sipping water through trunks. Now that that's out of the way, ...
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Do Out-of-Order Packets Affect VoIP?

Some things are never out-of-order. In a busy deli at lunch time, you must take a number and wait your turn, no matter ...
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How Does VoIP Work? Details on the SIP and RTP Protocols

You pick up a handset, dial a number, it rings, and someone answers. How hard can it be? Actually, a lot goes on behind ...
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Where Does Latency Come From and How Do You Control It?

"Are we there yet?" The age old question evokes images of family vacations that involve long drives with kids in the ...
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Where Does VoIP Packet Loss Come From? Detecting and Preventing VoIP Packet Loss

Your network infrastructure is very similar to our road infrastructure: Sometimes, your daily commute may be perfect ...
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Monitoring and Troubleshooting Cloud Services: A Higher Standard

As a kid, cloud monitoring meant going outside and looking for new shapes created by clouds in the sky. If only it was ...
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Where Does VoIP Jitter Come From?

When you first learn about ‘jitter’, you might think it’s a resurgence of a 1940’s dance craze. Happy people dancing ...
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Diagnose and Fix Packet Loss in Your Network

Packet Loss and Its Causes Simply put, packet loss is when packets of data being transmitted through a network get ...
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What is Network Troubleshooting?

Network troubleshooting is the combined measures and processes used to identify, diagnose and solve problems within a ...
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Licensing Without Pain

We recently interviewed a number of IT Managers and Network Engineers what their biggest complaint was regarding ...
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Your First Day Working in IT

My first day working in the IT department, my new boss sat me down and told me something I didn’t expect.
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The World is a Bigger Place Than You Realize

One thing always seems to ring true in the world of networking: Networks get larger over time. This is due to the ...
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Natural Language Troubleshooting

Hollywood tantalizes us with super high-tech futures where you ask the computer verbal questions like “Computer, what ...
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Network CSI Part Three: Choppy Waters

We’ve seen this a thousand times on screen: A camera shows a grizzled detective hovering over a crime scene in New York ...
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