This is the third of a series of four newsletters where we’re sharing excerpts from the Webtorials Thought Leadership Discussion on WAN Virtualization. This series features a “virtual discussion” with ...

Packet shapers are not well known outside of network administrators’ offices, but they are necessary technology from now on. Without them, colleges would face a stark choice: Pay for tremendous ...

Network traffic in both enterprise and carrier networks continues to rise, driving the bandwidth requirements and line rates to 10 Gbps today, and expecting to grow to 40 Gbps and beyond in a few ...

In my experience packet or flow capture is the next logical upgrade to SNMP. Packet capture allows you to take a mirror image of network packets as they move through a network. Flow data usually ...

Packets hit key steps as they move through flow-processing engines used in applications that require 40 Gbits/s of stateful deep packet inspection, for example. LF: What is flow processing? JS: As the ...

Network flow watermarking is an advanced technique that embeds covert information into the characterising features of network traffic flows. By subtly modifying timing characteristics such as ...

FloSIS is a multi-10Gbps network flow capture system that supports real-time flow indexing for fast flow retrieval and flow-content deduplication for enhanced storage efficiency. FloSIS is a ...

Scott Reeves demonstrates the flow graph feature of the Wireshark tool, which can help you check connections between client server, finding timeouts, re-transmitted frames, or dropped connections. I ...

A typical User Datagram Protocol/Internet Protocol (UDP/IP) header contains 20 bytes of IP header and eight bytes of UDP header. While UDP headers contain source and destination UDP port addresses, ...