Our business is connected to various outside facilities across town via fiber. We lease the fiber, and have Cisco ASA (or PIX) firewalls on each end with a VPN tunnel connecting our private networks.

Getting a grip on network performance numbers is one of the most difficult tasks for network managers. Unlike many information technology statistics such as disk space utilization and available memory ...

We noticed a peculiarity on our Comcast EDI 50M link which uses a Ciena LE-311v for hand off. This device provided by Comcast is something like a decade old, so maybe that's the cause: Start high ...