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I’m always on the look out for new technology and Google’s Trendalyzer is a good example. Google recently acquired the technology from the original authors at Gapminder (talk by Hans [...]

We have an on-going program of writing a description of various Root Bridge Selection, Duplex Mismatch. The number of each tech tip is out of a long list of tech [...]

With all the existing NetMRI is designed to be installed in less than an hour, discover what’s on the network, collect data from the network devices, and analyze the collected [...]

I’m speaking on an Interop panel about network management. Eric Siegel, an analyst at The Burton Group, is moderator of the panel and the topic is: “The Future of Network [...]

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I gave a talk last night at the AITP, Baltimore chapter (Netcordia is located in Annapolis, MD. It isn’t one of the cities that you’d think would be a hot-bed [...]

We just announced an agreement with Splunk, incorporating their Splunk log file collection and analysis engine into NetMRI.

I visited a customer yesterday who is using eight (!) tools for network management (this count includes Network management with too many tools is common, but not a good idea. [...]

Introduction We’ve been talking about IP Multicast. This month I’m going to start covering PIM Sparse Mode. Previous articles that might be of interest: The Protocols of IP Multicast PIM [...]

Introduction This article continues the series on IP Multicast. We’ll take a look at how basic IP multicast works. We’ll then look at how PIM Dense Mode (PIM-DM) operates, how [...]

Introduction I’ve been talking about doing some articles about IP Multicast for a while. It looks like time to put up or shut up! In this article, we’ll examine the [...]