Month: March 2014

Endace Network Visibility Solutions Part of InteropNet at Interop 2014!

Original Entry by : Barry Shaw

As Interop once again draws near, the InteropNet infrastructure stands ready and waiting to provide critical connectivity to the thousands of visitors and hundreds of exhibitors who attend the show.  Each year, InteropNet is provided by a dedicated band of volunteer vendors, whose preparation starts early in February at the UBM hot stage. There, the network is designed, constructed and tested, so that it is ready to be shipped to Las Vegas in time to provide the network for Interop. Each year, the team reviews the latest technology to determine what is needed to provide a state of the art network that can showcase emergent trends in the networking space.

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Make Sure March Madness Doesn’t Live Up to its Name

Original Entry by : Mike Heumann

Last month, we talked about how to keep the Winter Olympics from clogging up your networks as employees raced to stream live events during the workday.  Well, in the U.S., today and tomorrow are two of the biggest sports streaming days of the year.  Although we’ve already seen some play-in games this week, when Ohio State and Dayton tip-off this afternoon in the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament, the annual “madness” repeats itself all over again. This is because this next slate of games will run almost continually over the coming 36 hours, mostly during regular business hours.  And let’s be honest, most of us want to sneak a peek at the scores and witness some of the thrilling upsets that happen every year.

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