Visibility can be the critical factor in heading off the increasing number of attacks, outages and data breaches in large-scale distributed networks. But up to now total visibility of Ethernet ...

This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter’s approach. A new class of packet-based ...

Every good network engineer loves to capture packets to help with troubleshooting problems. The issue is that it takes time, effort and expense to setup a distributed packet capture solution. For ...

PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--LiveAction, a visionary provider of IT network management, visualization, and analytics software today announced the acquisition of Savvius, a leading provider of ...

Packet capture is a mechanism that copies packets received from thenetwork and pushes them into user space making the frame available toan application for further analysis. These applications can be ...

The phrase "sniff the network" may conjure Orwellian visions of a Big Brother network administrator reading people's private email messages. Before anyone uses Wireshark, an organization should ensure ...

Modules, dev kits, reference designs and protocol-stack software simplify the design of wireless equipment. But engineers still need a way to monitor wireless communications to ensure that the proper ...