Picture this: You're the IT manager at a large company, and you're responsible for ensuring that your network is running smoothly. But how do you know if everything is working as it should be? You could wait for someone to report a problem, but that's reactive and not ideal. You could monitor your network constantly, but that's impractical and time-consuming. So what's the solution? Enter synthetic monitoring, the secret sauce to network monitoring.

Staring down the runway of 2023 and toward 2024, I’m wondering what will become of the digital transformation initiatives that began pre-Covid and accelerated over the past two-plus years. We’re certainly not entering a “stop transforming” period. So, what will transformation look like going forward?

A data-driven approach to cybersecurity provides the situational awareness to see what’s happening with our infrastructure, but this approach also requires people to interact with the data. That’s how we bring meaning to the data and make those decisions that, as yet, computers can’t make for us. In this post, Phil Gervasi unpacks what it means to have a data-driven approach to cybersecurity.

Megaport’s latest Megaport Virtual Edge (MVE) enhancements mean higher performance, more choice, and additional security partner options for customers.

The PerfOps suite offers many tools to help you troubleshoot and measure your network performance with ease. One of the most often used tools is the Traceroute diagnostic tool. It is used to determine the path that an Internet Protocol (IP) packet takes from a source device to a destination device on a network.

Somewhere lost in the noise of ‘faster’ and ‘better’ marketing messaging around Wi-Fi in the last few years, there were also some genuine transformations in what Wi-Fi is capable of. And what’s on the horizon maybe some of the most significant improvements since the inception of Wi-Fi itself. Let’s look at where Wi-Fi is at, what big changes have happened, and where we’re going next in the land of Wi-Fi technology.

True observability requires visibility into both the application and network layers. For companies reliant on multi-zonal cloud networks, the days of NetOps existing as a team siloed away from application developers are over.

Are you tired of constantly experiencing buffering, lagging streams, or dropped calls? Have you ever wished you had a network watchdog to monitor your connection and alert you of any issues before they become a major headache? Well, you're in luck because we have just the tools and tips for you! In this step-by-step guide, we'll show you how to become a network watchdog yourself and use Network Monitoring tools to monitor your network connectivity like a pro.