Total Network Visibility Blog

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 ...

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 ...

Network troubleshooting is the combined measures and processes used to identify, diagnose and solve problems within a ...

We recently interviewed a number of IT Managers and Network Engineers what their biggest complaint was regarding ...

My first day working in the IT department, my new boss sat me down and told me something I didn’t expect.

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

Hollywood tantalizes us with super high-tech futures where you ask the computer verbal questions like “Computer, what ...

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

In CSI part one of this series, we explained how network troubleshooting is a bit like investigating the scene of a ...

Imagine you are investigating the scene of a murder. After spending an entire day combing for evidence, you and your ...

Let me start out by saying that Wireshark is a fantastic tool.

We usually deploy monitoring software to gain visibility into our environment. Typically, the monitoring software will ...