Deploying or migrating to a new service infrastructure within your business is always an exciting, but highly stressful venture. In order for a new service deployment or migration to be successful, businesses need to plan and prepare beforehand. A network assessment is the surest and easiest way for businesses to prepare their network for a deployment or migration without any hiccups.

A poorly performing network can cost your business in more ways than one. That’s why knowing how to optimize network performance is crucial to your business’ everyday success. Optimizing network performance is all about being proactive — because proactivity leads to productivity.

There are many causes of poor network performance. Some network problems can arise from fault hardware or from unexpected usage patterns. Experiencing a network problem is frustrating, and left unattended, it can be disastrous for your business network. That's why it's important to understand what can go wrong with your network and quickly identify and fix problems as soon as they arise. Now let's go through some of the network issues that have left many users pulling their hair out in frustration.

When looking at a Traceroute, there's usually two important values for each hop or router: Latency Packet Loss Latency: Refers to the time difference between the time when a packet was sent and when a response was received. The latency between two hops can be affected by a number of things such as: To qualify the latency in a traceroute as good or bad, you should analyze historical traceroutes.

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What are Traceroutes and how exactly do they help you troubleshoot network problems? Traceroute is the most popular tool that network engineers use to troubleshoot network problems. It was invented in 1987 and is still highly relevant today. As its name suggests, the main purpose of a traceroute is to trace the IP route from a source to a destination inside an IP network. It shows users the round-trip latency from the source to each of the routers. Traceroute commands are available on almost any host.

Intermittent network problems frustrate users, affect business productivity, and are a nightmare for all IT administrators because they are the most difficult to solve. Network problems like choppy VoIP, jerky video calls, and network and application slowness issues can affect your business in drastic ways - which is why it's important to know how to identify network issues so you can solve them quickly.

From speaking with IT professionals, clients, and employees from other network-reliant departments, we've put together a list of the 10 most asked network performance questions to give you a basic understanding of network performance.

Continuous network performance monitoring can help you ensure that your network is always performing at its highest level. The best to way to measure network performance is by measuring certain performance metrics. In this short video, learn about the top 5 network performance metrics that you should be monitoring. Continuous network performance monitoring can help you ensure that your network is always performing as its highest level.

You may have heard IT professionals go on about the importance of monitoring your network performance to help you pinpoint the cause of problems like dropped calls, slow downs, or connection losses within your infrastructure. The easiest way to get the point across is to understand the specific situations in which the solution will be used. Watch this 2-minute video to learn about the top 3 use cases for network performance monitoring, specifically for service providers (MSPs).

In this short video, Obkio CEO, Jean-Francois Levesque, teaches you how to quickly set up and monitor a device using Obkio's Network Device Monitoring Solution. Obkio's Device Monitoring feature is a fast and easy solution to help you get detailed information about the health of devices, such as as firewalls, routers, switches wifi access points, and other devices crucial for IT teams. Used with the end-to-end Network Performance Monitoring feature, it helps IT teams pinpoint issues quickly and efficiently.