Total Network Visibility Blog

The world of networking changes – fast. Here’s a look at the history of networking technologies that no longer exists, ...

For System Administrator Appreciation Day, we asked our customers to submit a story about their heroic deeds on the ...

COVID-19: the impact it has in the industry, and our commitment to our customers. Because of the COVID-19 worldwide ...

Our company was founded over a decade ago to automate network intelligence, and we have some exciting news to share ...

If one of your servers or workstations were sending data to a server in Russia, would you know it? Many organizations ...

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

For System Administrator Appreciation Day, we asked our customers and many other SysAdmins to submit a story about ...

Most network monitoring systems don’t dig deep enough into the network to see all of the error counters. With most ...

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 ...

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

The American Heritage Dictionary defines a squatter as one who settles on unoccupied land without legal claim. We are ...

What do you really know about the vulnerabilities of your network equipment? An equipment manufacturer could have ...

As network engineers, we occasionally empty our favorite adult beverage and discuss "what’s missing in the world of ...

If you had a bad cable causing problems in your network, would you know it? How fast could you find and fix the ...

The history of technology is replete with stories of continuous improvements that aim to make the technology seamless ...

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

Notice: This blog entry has nothing to do with elephants sipping water through trunks. Now that that's out of the way, ...

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 ...

You pick up a handset, dial a number, it rings, and someone answers. How hard can it be? Actually, a lot goes on behind ...

"Are we there yet?" The age old question evokes images of family vacations that involve long drives with kids in the ...

Your network infrastructure is very similar to our road infrastructure: Sometimes, your daily commute may be perfect ...

As a kid, cloud monitoring meant going outside and looking for new shapes created by clouds in the sky. If only it was ...

When you first learn about ‘jitter’, you might think it’s a resurgence of a 1940’s dance craze.  Happy people dancing ...

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