Internet traffic has a wide range of variability at all times. However, the fourth quarter of the year typically remains the busiest for a lot of businesses out there. That’s specifically true for content providers and e-commerce retailers as online activity usually...
At Noction, collecting and analyzing petabytes of data across all IRP instances worldwide offers us valuable data regarding overall Internet performance as well as performance of specific providers. Today we decided to share some of the insights on Tier 1 providers...
We’ve talked about network latency several times in previous blog posts. Today, let’s drill a bit deeper on that topic, and especially how it influences application performance. Network latency is the time it takes for a packet to travel across the...
Video is an interesting network application. Many users consume hours of video per day, and an hour of HD video is easily more than a gigabyte in size. Those two factors alone make delivering video a non-trivial exercise. But the real challenge is that most video...
The triumvirate of network performance metrics are latency, loss and jitter. Today, we’re going to take a look at how each of them — especially latency and packet loss — determine application performance. Almost all applications use TCP, the Transmission Control...
