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During early spring and summer 2019, Keysight (Ixia’s parent company) hosted a serious of technical seminars talking about key trends in the industry to help our customers. Businesses must obviously react to the plethora of rapidly changing technological infrastructure and cyber security threats…

The cost of managing complex networks is driven up by the time and effort you must spend to understand how traffic move through your network. Path discovery is an essential step in diagnosing network performance problems. The standard tool used by network engineers is traceroute, but using it takes…

Each of us has sat in standstill traffic, trying to understand why this major highway we drive all the time has suddenly backed up, with our phone maps application showing a line of red for the next mile or two. As we crawl towards the bottleneck, we see it: A fender bender with dented cars still…

If you haven’t seen the official trailer for Top Gun: Maverick, you need to. And if watching the trailer makes you think about your own need for speed…network speed that is, you’re not alone. We’re all feeling the need for speed, and the race to 400G and above has already started. It’s…

Acquisitions can be tough to get right and easy to get wrong. For example, HP acquired Autonomy for $11.2 Billion in 2011, only to discover later that they had cooked their books, resulting in a $9B writedown. Back in the dot com era, Terra Networks acquired Lycos for $12.5 Billion, only to unload…

In my last blog about SRv6, I reviewed SRv6 technology and Ixia’s solution to validate SRv6 implementations. Now, over 10 months passed, there is a lot more excitement and interest in the market. Multiple SRv6 implementations, commercial deployments, and next-generation network design…

Customers in the finance sector often ask the question – “What is latency across an optical tap?”. Buddy, can you spare a nanosecond?In the world of low latency trading, where servers are co located with Exchange matching engines, latencies do add up and sometimes nanoseconds matter, so the latency…

The broadcast industry has embraced IP technology and is transitioning from tradition serial digital input (SDI) to IP/Ethernet infrastructure for live production and professional television to meet the increasing amount of content distribution, flexibility for modern media processing, as well as a…