We just got back from New York after hosting our second Connect event of the year. Keeping up with tradition, we welcomed speakers from a variety of industry verticals: healthcare, Internet security and financial institutions. In today's post we'll discuss the presentation by Ivan Shepherd, Senior Manager at AIM Specialty…
This week we announced a new feature to visualize reverse network paths and collect more granular metrics in each direction of the flow. This is especially useful in portions of the network with asymmetric routing. So what is asymmetric routing and how common is it?
On May 17th 2016, we started seeing a string of network and BGP routing issues that were spread across continents. A deeper look revealed correlated behaviour resulting from possible mishaps in the SEA-ME-WE 4 (SMW-4) submarine communications cable affecting Tata Communications and Telecom Italia Sparkle (TISparkle).
We’re increasingly seeing anycast being used for the delivery of Internet services. It’s been around for a while with the DNS root, but many CDNs and even HTTP-based applications are now making use of anycast. So what is anycast and how does it differ from more common methodologies.
We just wrapped up our second ThousandEyes Connect San Francisco, filled with intelligent conversations and excellent stories, including a talk by Andrea Di Lecce from Cisco. We were excited to invite Andrea to share how Cisco IT uses ThousandEyes. Andrea is responsible for managing large IT projects within Cisco and…