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...
It’s a commonly known fact that congestion on the road significantly increases the time the auto vehicles must spend to get to the destination. Exactly the same happens with data networks: congestion considerably slows down the overall network performance. Latency...
An operational network is a strategic business resource. It carries everyday messages and mission-critical data, and facilitates communication between people and business processes. It is, probably, invisible to many people in the company, who, perceive it as a...
Speed is highly prioritized in networking. Applications with high bandwidth consumption and mission-critical systems demand ever more throughput and capacity. While the main demand comes from data-intensive sectors, such as: stockbroking, commodities trading, online...
During the transfer of information in the Internet, there are various situations related to certain host or network inaccessibility, or channels of communication overload. In these cases a packet loss occurs, which leads to retransmission of already sent data frame or...
