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The Future of Monitoring: Turning Unknown Unknowns into Known Knowns

To ascertain risk, national security and intelligence professionals have long used concepts such as known knowns, known unknowns, and unknown unknowns. The idea of unknown unknowns was created in 1955 by American psychologists Joseph Luft (1916–2014) and Harrington Ingham (1916–1995). This concept continues to be used today in risk assessments and is applicable to technology. The unknown unknowns are the threats and potential problems that remain invisible until their impact manifests.

How to Measure VoIP Quality & MOS Score (Mean Opinion Score)

VoIP Quality is highly reliant on network performance, which means that many network problems like packet loss, latency, and jitter can cause high levels of VoIP degradation. To avoid embarrassing choppy voice calls, or lagginess during your next client meeting, we’re running you through how to measure VoIP Quality with MOS Score (Mean Opinion Score).

A practical guide to container networking

An important part of any Kubernetes cluster is the underlying containers. Containers are the workloads that your business relies on, what your customers engage with, and what shapes your networking infrastructure. Long story short, containers are arguably the soul of any containerized environment. One of the most popular open-source container orchestration systems, Kubernetes, has a modular architecture.

Why Build a Transport Network

Since the days of voice calls transmitted along the top wire of a cattle fence, telecom providers have been looking for new and better ways to transport their service offerings. Today there is a wide array of alternatives from optical to switched and routed, logical mesh, ring, and star architectures to choose from. How do you know which is right for you? What is the best mix of design, build and manage features to carry you into the future? Moreover, how do you keep your project cost-effective?

What's New with Flowmon 12?

Flowmon 12 is here and ready for hybrid/multi-cloud deployments! With its latest release, Flowmon 12 brings the support of native flow logs from Google Cloud, and Azure and improves support for AWS flow logs. And that’s not all! Flowmon 12 brings fully redesigned reporting for better readability, command line tool to assess quality of the flow data and improvements in workflow and user experience based on customer feedback.

Anatomy of an OTT traffic surge: 2022 Men's NCAA Basketball Championship

Last night, Kansas topped the University of North Carolina in a thrilling come-from-behind victory to win their fourth championship in men’s college basketball. It was also notable in how viewers saw the game. Instead of being aired on CBS (network television), the game was carried on TBS requiring viewers to have either a cable TV package or use a streaming service to watch the game. Here’s what we saw.

Data Sovereignty: Everything You Need to Know

“What’s data sovereignty? Is it the same thing as data privacy? What about data sovereignty vs data residency?” These are questions that plague many business owners, especially when you consider the cost of non-compliance. But achieving compliance can be challenging when you aren’t sure what rules you should be complying with.