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By Andrii Kernitskyi
As an IT professional or network administrator, you understand the critical importance of maintaining a smooth and efficient network. LAN congestion can be a silent disruptor, causing significant slowdowns and affecting the productivity of your entire team. Imagine trying to navigate through a traffic jam on your way to an important meeting – frustrating, isn't it? This is precisely what LAN congestion feels like for your network.
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By Andrii Kernitskyi
' Whether you’re a seasoned IT professional or just beginning to explore the intricacies of network monitoring, you may have heard about "Network Monitoring" and how important it is to ensure that your network, and all its related applications, services and devices, are working as they should be.
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By Andrii Kernitskyi
Understanding network performance can be a challenge, especially when certain terms are frequently discussed but often misunderstood. For many, the concepts of network bandwidth and capacity are at the forefront of any networking conversation. These terms are commonly used, and their significance is often highlighted in network performance discussions. However, they are just pieces of a much larger puzzle – one that this article will help you realize.
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By Andrii Kernitskyi
Imagine you’re in the middle of a phone call, and suddenly, the conversation cuts out for a moment. You miss a word, a sentence, or even an entire part of the discussion. It’s frustrating, right? This interruption is similar to what happens in a network when data packets are dropped and fail to reach their destination. These interruptions are known as network packet drops.
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By Andrii Kernitskyi
As you set out to optimize and understand your network, two essential metrics you'll need to master are latency and jitter. While they might seem similar at first glance, both latency and jitter represent distinct aspects of how data travels across a network, influencing everything from seamless VoIP calls and smooth video streaming to immersive online gaming and responsive cloud applications.
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By Andrii Kernitskyi
Believe it or not, seamless and efficient data transmission is super important for both businesses and individual users and impacts a variety of different applications and services. However, one of the common issues that can disrupt this flow is packet loss, which can lead to a variety of network performance problems. High packet loss is particularly concerning since it can severely impact the quality of VoIP calls, video conferencing, online gaming, and even basic web browsing.
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By Andrii Kernitskyi
In the world of networking, speed often takes center stage, but there’s another crucial factor that can make or break your online experience: latency. Whether you're running a business with multiple applications and users or simply enjoying a gaming session at home, understanding and managing latency is key to ensuring smooth, efficient, and frustration-free network performance.
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By Andrii Kernitskyi
Discover the top 30 tools to troubleshoot network issues, from basic solutions to advanced network troubleshooting tools. Find the best fit for your needs. Businesses rely heavily on their networks to keep things running smoothly. When network issues pop up, they can throw a wrench into daily operations, slow down productivity, and cost a lot of money. That’s why having the right tools to troubleshoot and fix these problems is so important.
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By Alyssa Lamberti
Optimizing your network is the key to help improve network performance. It helps provide optimal performance of your Internet, VPN, Firewall, VoIP and UC apps, and most importantly - your user experience. Keep reading to learn how to optimize network performance for continuous network optimization.
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By Alyssa Lamberti
Imagine a world where packets go on unexpected detours, performing an electrifying dance routine that challenges the order we hold dear. Sounds intriguing, doesn't it? In the realm of data transmission, order is king. But every now and then, our trusty packets decide to take a detour, throwing caution to the wind and leaving us scratching our heads. Fear not! Today, we embark on an exhilarating exploration to demystify the phenomenon of out-of-order packets, also known as packet reordering.
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By Obkio
In this video, we’re looking at the “Network Performance” tab in Obkio’s Network Performance Monitoring App. This tab displays the number of Monitoring Sessions currently configured in your Obkio account. Learn how to use Network Performance Monitoring in Obkio's app to monitor end-to-end network performance using network metrics to identify performance issues and improve the user experience.
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By Obkio
Welcome! In this video, we’re looking at the “Dashboards” tab in Obkio’s Network Performance Monitoring App. The Network Monitoring Dashboards allow you to visualize all the information and metrics collected from your Obkio account. You can leverage dashboards to analyze and compare information and find answers when monitoring and troubleshooting network performance. In this video, we will show you what you can do at the widget level in a single dashboard, and also, how to manage multiple dashboards in Obkio’s app.
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By Obkio
Welcome! In this video, we’re discussing Network Monitoring Agents in Obkio’s Network Performance Monitoring App. Monitoring agents (software, hardware, virtual appliance) are be deployed to monitor network performance in all network locations. This video will also teach you how to create new Monitoring Agents or to modify or delete Agents you already have in your account.
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By Obkio
Welcome to Obkio’s App! In this video, we’ll be exploring the “Application Performance” tab within the app. You can use Application Performance Monitoring (APM) to monitor web and application performance, and more specifically, to test any website or web application from an HTTP or HTTPS point of view. APM helps you understand if network issues are coming from your local network or not.
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By Obkio
Welcome to Obkio’s App! Today, we’ll be looking at the “Live Network Status” tab in Obkio’s app which shows you the live network performance of all network paths on Obkio’s Chord Diagram. The Chord Diagram is made up of Obkio’s Monitoring Agents, deployed in key network locations, as of the Monitoring Sessions, which are created between Agents.
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By Obkio
In just 60 seconds, learn more about using Obkio’s Network Performance Monitoring software to audit network performance, monitor decentralized networks (SD-WAN, Cloud, VoIP, UC, SASE, VPN), and identify and troubleshoot network problems. Obkio is a simple Network Monitoring & Troubleshooting SaaS solution that continuously monitors network and core business applications performance to identify intermittent issues and improve the end-user experience.
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By Obkio
Check out the snippet from our latest webinar, How to Troubleshoot SD-WAN Networks. Obkio VP and Lead Network Geek explains Obkio's SD-WAN monitoring design. Obkio is a simple Network Monitoring & Troubleshooting SaaS solution that continuously monitors network and core business applications performance to identify intermittent issues and improve the end-user experience.
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By Obkio
A snippet from our webinar on "How to Monitor SD-WAN Networks." Obkio's Solutions Architect, Sam, explains monitoring SD-WAN Internet connection with Obkio. Obkio is a simple Network Monitoring & Troubleshooting SaaS solution that continuously monitors network and core business applications performance to identify intermittent issues and improve the end-user experience.
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By Obkio
A snippet from our webinar on "How to Monitor SD-WAN Networks." Obkio's Solutions Architect, Sam, explains deploying Monitoring Agents in key network locations. Obkio is a simple Network Monitoring & Troubleshooting SaaS solution that continuously monitors network and core business applications performance to identify intermittent issues and improve the end-user experience.
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By Obkio
How to Monitor Network Speed with Obkio Network Monitoring When monitoring network performance, the metric that we most commonly hear about is Speed. But in the network world as in life, speed isn't everything, quality matters too. It’s important to measure network speed with an end-to-end Network Monitoring solution.
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By Obkio
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Obkio is a simple network performance monitoring solution that allows users to continuously monitor the health of their network and core business applications to improve the end-user experience.
Obkio’s sleek and user-friendly software application diagnoses the causes of intermittent VoIP, video, and applications slowdown in seconds to easily identify the source of a system failure so you can quickly apply the corrective measures before it affects your end-users.