Network managers have long been challenged with optimizing their network to respond to changing demands from applications, systems and end users. But now more than ever the end-user, or client, ...

The speed of a network is generally defined as throughput: how many megabits or gigabits your network can pump through its pipes in the course of a second. That's certainly important, but there's ...

Ookla, the company best known for its Speedtest.net and Downdetector services, has acquired RootMetrics, a firm specializing in mobile network performance measurement services. Ookla CEO and ...

Update, July 11, 2017: We’ve added some additional tips and tricks for monitoring the performance your ISP is delivering throughout this article. Forget that bass; in the digital world, it’s all about ...

It’s a bad sign if your Network Effectiveness Ratio declines. Learn how to calculate this metric, and what to do next. Network Effectiveness Ratio (NER) measures a network’s ability to deliver a call ...

Find a downloadable version of this story in pdf format at the end of the story. When measuring a circuit or device with a network analyzer, engineers generally inject a signal and believe that the ...

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