Canada's Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, Francois-Philippe Champagne, yesterday issued a statement regarding Rogers Communications' proposed takeover of Shaw Communications and its subsidiary Freedom Mobile, in which he indicated that at least some of Freedom's cellular spectrum licences would need to be divested as a condition of mer...

The newly released IOTA software version 2.2.2 includes the following new features: Added traffic analysis support for IEEE 802.1ad (QinQ) traffic It is now possible to filter traffic based on the outer VLAN tag of QinQ frames. This improves the versatility of IOTA, as it can now capture and analyze this type of traffic without the need for additio...

Chances are you’ve seen Internet Protocol TV (IPTV) but didn’t know it. Different types of IPTV are popping up in our daily lives ranging from Video-On-Demand to being greeted by pre-recorded video messages at the gas pump or ATM. And many businesses are adopting IPTV to broadcast live or on-demand video content to employees, partners, customers, and investors. But what does this mean for the network team? In this article we’ll outline IPTV basics and focus on primary management challenges and b...

How does an IT team ensure accurate and complete visibility? Obtaining comprehensive visibility into network performance requires not only looking at the network and application, but digging into infrastructure health and performance. Solutions providing this view typically utilize two different approaches: agent or agentless. Selecting the best method for your team requires understanding the options and selecting the solution that integrates well with your existing resources. In this article, w...

Seamless monitoring of network traffic is critically important for enterprise network and security administrators: it lies at the very foundation of network threat detection and remediation. Regrettably, packet duplication has commonly been an undesirable side-effect of network traffic monitoring. Packet duplication produces redundant information i...

Security cameras and alarm systems monitor your buildings, offices, streets, but who monitors your networks? Watch the replay of the Live Webinar "IOTA and Cybersecurity" where Profitap discussed how IOTA can be the best entry point to monitor your network performance. IOTA gives detailed network traffic visibility to critical applications and data...

Canada's Xplornet Communications has announced a plan to deliver affordable fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) internet to 200,000 homes and businesses in rural communities across Ontario. The move forms part of Xplornet's commitment announced last year to invest CAD500 million (USD399 million) by 2025 in deploying fibre and 5G fixed wireless access to meet ...

Network Visibility Dashboards Save Time When mired in KPIs and data analysis, it's easy to forget WHY we have networks but it is important to remember they are the backbone of business that help us deliver services and products. There is a way to rise above the KPI and data debacle – executive dashboards. In this "Benefits of Executive Dashboards –...

You've got massive volumes of data and traffic flowing in and out of your network, plus numerous applications to keep running. It's critical to your bottom line. That's why you can't settle for only partial visibility. Anything less than the full picture and you risk disastrous consequences that can increase costs, cause unexpected outages, delay t...

Your network is more than an information delivery system. It's the heartbeat of your business. Don't let performance problems spoil your users' experience. Active monitoring provides advantages you can't get from the traditional reactive approach. It provides the intelligence you need to: Validate performance before deploying new infrastructure or ...

As networks grow more complex the cost to maintain them frequently increases as well. This isn't always necessary. Ensuring that all traffic on your network is processed efficiently is a simple — but effective — way to minimize cost. For example, some organizations purchase additional monitoring and security tools because the existing tools are ove...

The proper network Management tools allows you to follow these 6 simple tips. This will help you stay ahead of network probelms, and if a problem does occurs you will have the data to be able to analyze the problem.   Troubleshoot sporadic issues with the right equipment  The most irksome issues are often sporadic and require IT teams to wait for the problem to reappear or spend hours recreating the issue. With retrospective network analysis (RNA) solutions, it's possible to elimi...

Cloud by definition, tend to obscure things. As companies continue to move business-critical applications to the cloud, you may lose visibility into cloud traffic. A recent survey of cloud operations professionals revealed: 87 percent feared the cloud was obscuring security threats95 percent believed the cloud delayed the identification and resolut...

Unmask Bandwidth Bandits The term bandwidth hog makes most network managers consider the usual suspects - from ill-timed backups to illicit P2P use. But bandwidth-stealing applications can be difficult to unmask and simply increasing network capacity won’t solve the problem. So let's discuss three commonly overlooked strategies and scenarios to identify bandits and avoid performance interruptions. Prioritized Video Push  Network teams assume video conferencing will consume significant bandw...

If you are an existing SolarWinds user and concerned About how the recent hack might affect you and your organization's ability to monitor your network? Considering replacing SolarWinds as your primary monitoring tool? Join us on January 28Th. for this 30 minute webinar, as we compare the comprehensive NMSaaS cloud-based network management solution...

As a member of the network team, your day is often consumed by rushing from one network fire to the next. What if you could anticipate fires before they fanned out of control? By baselining your service activity and component health you can identify hotspots on your network before they go ablaze. Understanding Baselining There's no need to arbitrar...

The annual update to StableNet® has been released. Version 10.0 offers important usability and performance enhancements. Within the GUI, the search menu has been improved and it is possible to specify multiple ranges per monitor to define the monitor status. Besides the possibility to set up StableNet® without root access, they have also improved t...

Viavi's 2020 State of the Network Study results are in. Over 400 IT professionals from around the world, across business size and verticals, completed the survey this year sharing their views on IT in a year that has seen its share of dramatic ups and downs. One significant new insight is the importance of understanding end-user experiences, especi...

IOTA is an innovative way for you troubleshoot network issues by providing Real-time analysis on a Network Link. Mike Pennacchi, Owner of Network Protocol Specialists LLC, will discuss how you can quickly deploy IOTA to capture network traffic and enable real-time analysis remotely.  You will learn how to connect IOTA to your network, start ca...

As your network continues to grow physically and virtually and speeds increase up 100 Gig it becomes increasingly difficult to ensure that all your security and monitoring tools have access to the real-time traffic that they need to analyze. Profitap and Mike Pennacchi, Owner of Network Protocol Specialists LLC,  explain the role a Network Pac...