The cost of network downtime

Network downtime can lead to major customer churn for Service Providers. A research conducted by The Strategy Group shows an increasing lack of customer tolerance for network downtime. Network engineers face many challenges while struggling to increase the network availability. The research shows that human factor is responsible for 50 to 80 percent of network outages caused by the network equipment. continue reading


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.

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 the configurations of BGP routers, on an trial-and-error basis.