The speed of a network is generally defined as throughput: how many megabits or gigabits your network can pump through its pipes in the course of a second. That's certainly important, but there's ...

The selfhosting community is an interesting and useful part of the Internet dedicated to removing one’s own services and data from the cloud and hosting it on their own servers, often on hardware that ...

The job of a network engineer just keeps getting more complicated. Mission critical applications are competing for bandwidth. The sheer number of devices is exploding, driven by IoT. And the network ...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Kentik, the network observability company, today launched The Cloud Latency Map, a free public tool that allows anyone to explore the latencies measured between over ...

FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hurricane Electric, the world’s largest IPv6 Internet backbone and leading colocation provider, today announced the launch of a Layer 2 latency Tool to determine the ...

Videoconferencing has revealed to all of us how good—or poor—our Internet connections really are. However, if you’re just loading Web pages or reading email, it’s unlikely you can get a sense of ...

Free VoIP Speed Testing: How to Evaluate Call Quality on Your Network Your email has been sent VoIP speed tests measure critical metrics (e.g., latency, jitter, packet loss, and mean opinion score) to ...

For some applications, the public cloud is only as good as the slowest connection to it. Latency of cloud providers – the amount of time it takes for a cloud-based service to respond to a user’s ...

Measure Your Network Latency Before It Becomes a Problem Latency can be a problem in networks, especially if there's a cloud service involved. You may not be able to eliminate it, but here's how you ...