congestion
TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) Congestion Control
Network congestion may occur when a sender overflows the network with too many packets. At the time of congestion, the network cannot handle this...
Fixing packet loss: spending money to make money
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,...
Routing anomalies – their origins and how do they affect end users
Nowadays, the Internet is made-up of more than 45,000 active Autonomous Systems (ASes), each with a different complexity level and specific configurations. To accomplish...
Five tips for reducing congestion in enterprise networks
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....
The cost of network downtime for Service Providers
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...
Understanding the impact of network latency on Service Providers’ business
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...
Economical implications of WAN BGP optimization automation
Most multi-homed networks need to engineer and control the traffic flow for both performance and economical reasons. This is commonly done by manually tweaking...
Is BGP multi-homing enough for WAN network performance?
BGP multihoming has become as necessary to the networks connected to Internet, as the use of redundant power sources or multiple data centers. No...
Network congestion technical implications
During the transfer of information in the Internet, there are various situations related to certain host or network inaccessibility, or channels of communication overload....