Slack is a great communication platform that simplifies and streamlines day-to-day operations of various teams around the world. Integrating the tools that engineers adopt in their networks with Slack means the administrators only have to go to one place to obtain all...
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...
In many online games, very good network performance is a prerequisite for satisfactory gameplay. However, there are many kinds of games, and their networking needs differ. First of all, there’s the games that run locally with no online component, such as Angry...
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...
