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...
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...
As explained in our last blog post, packet loss and latency can seriously impact application performance. There’s not much we can do about latency, because most of it is a result of distance. If that’s not the problem, it’s the buffering of packets...
