IP address management vendor eTelemetry last week at Interop announced an appliance that takes the company’s Locate technology and applies it to bandwidth management. The network appliance, dubbed ...

Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is an application-layer protocol for monitoring and managing network devices on a local area network or wide area network. SNMP provides network devices, such ...

Network management starts with understanding all the components that constitute a comprehensive IT management strategy. Each network management subdiscipline incorporates several operational elements.

We are at an interesting transition point here in our understanding of how to manage applications on the IP network. Polycom and Juniper jointly announced work they are doing to connect the Polycom ...

DENVER -- Today from the SCTE Cable-Tec Expo, Integrated Broadband Services (IBBS), a leading provider of OSS software and network services supporting more than 230 broadband and cable operators ...

Bandwidth Management Last week I wrote about bandwidth demand. When designing a network to support voice and video, calculating bandwidth demand is the job of determining how much bandwidth will be ...

In a recent column, we mentioned that one of the major changes that we’ve witnessed over the past seven years is a dramatic drop in price per bit-per-second for WAN bandwidth. We also pointed out that ...