Question: Can you find the Bandwidth Hog in Your Network?
OK, I admit it. For the folks who operate networks, it can be a headache to manage bandwidth. For the rest of us, bandwidth represents something awesome - amazing - the pinnacle of human network achievement. Like the power of millions of people to collectively getting to see hundreds of people getting their balls whacked on YouTube.
Yet regardless, for all its splendor, there is also an undeniable truth to managing modern networks which are becoming progressively unified. Video, voice, data... an engineer friend of mine said to me one day, "the internet is so darn complicated it's a miracle the thing even works." OK, that made me a little scared. But regardless of your network's complexity, one thing is clear: there is beast that lurks inside, stealthily chewing up bandwidth: The insidious Bandwidth Hog.
Now don't get me wrong, at one time or another, most of us are guilty of being bandwidth hogs. To use a personal example, I am a lifelong soccer player but resisted the urge to stream live video during the World Cup. Growing up in the area and being a lifelong San Francisco Giants fan, I resisted the urge stream the World Series (though I did catch a few minutes of the parade celebration :) to see my beloved Giants win. BUT what got me in the end was the recent unrest in Egypt. I finally broke down and streamed about 15 minutes of video. Yes, I was hogging bandwidth (but don't tell my admin! :).
At any rate: the folks who deal with the complicated stuff: MPLS - VPN L2/L3 - Ethernet networks may view any species of hog with suspicion. But such is the world of provisioning complex services in this day and age. And the fact is, some people may be hogging your bandwidth without even knowing it. For example a network user may think they are behaving perfectly fine - because they're streaming music instead of video all day!
So we know today's needs of the world's Service Providers, Enterprise and Government networks are exploding and face new challenges every second of every hour. We urge you to not wait another day and check out Redcell Traffic Flow Analyzer, a world-class tool for identifying and fixing network problems fast. Go ahead and start hunting bandwidth hogs!
OK, I admit it. For the folks who operate networks, it can be a headache to manage bandwidth. For the rest of us, bandwidth represents something awesome - amazing - the pinnacle of human network achievement. Like the power of millions of people to collectively getting to see hundreds of people getting their balls whacked on YouTube.
Yet regardless, for all its splendor, there is also an undeniable truth to managing modern networks which are becoming progressively unified. Video, voice, data... an engineer friend of mine said to me one day, "the internet is so darn complicated it's a miracle the thing even works." OK, that made me a little scared. But regardless of your network's complexity, one thing is clear: there is beast that lurks inside, stealthily chewing up bandwidth: The insidious Bandwidth Hog.
Now don't get me wrong, at one time or another, most of us are guilty of being bandwidth hogs. To use a personal example, I am a lifelong soccer player but resisted the urge to stream live video during the World Cup. Growing up in the area and being a lifelong San Francisco Giants fan, I resisted the urge stream the World Series (though I did catch a few minutes of the parade celebration :) to see my beloved Giants win. BUT what got me in the end was the recent unrest in Egypt. I finally broke down and streamed about 15 minutes of video. Yes, I was hogging bandwidth (but don't tell my admin! :).
At any rate: the folks who deal with the complicated stuff: MPLS - VPN L2/L3 - Ethernet networks may view any species of hog with suspicion. But such is the world of provisioning complex services in this day and age. And the fact is, some people may be hogging your bandwidth without even knowing it. For example a network user may think they are behaving perfectly fine - because they're streaming music instead of video all day!
So we know today's needs of the world's Service Providers, Enterprise and Government networks are exploding and face new challenges every second of every hour. We urge you to not wait another day and check out Redcell Traffic Flow Analyzer, a world-class tool for identifying and fixing network problems fast. Go ahead and start hunting bandwidth hogs!
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