It may surprise you to learn that more bandwidth does not necessarily mean higher effective WAN throughput. If you transfer a lot of data over a high-capacity WAN, we bet you are not getting the ...

I recently sat through a presentation where an analyst said that 802.11n wouldn’t be that successful because it offers on the order of 100Mbit/sec., and “no one needs that kind of performance.” I ...

iperf3 is a network throughput tool used to measure the performance of the network your Mac is using. Here's how to use it in the macOS Terminal app. iperf is a UNIX memory, network throughput, and ...

I have a customer who just installed a 100Mb private WAN connection from a remote office. He has a Cisco 1841 running 12.4 at the remote end and a Cisco 3945 running 15.x on the other end. Is there a ...

There was an interesting discussion over in one of the Cisco forums on how to calculate your WAN speed. Those of you who read my last post know that packet loss, latency, and bandwidth all play into ...

How do multichannel fiber connections work? Why multichannel fiber connections are needed to meet AI workloads. Artificial intelligence (AI) gobbles up all available memory, compute power, and ...