If you answered “yes,” well, I’ve got the remedy. If your enterprise is feeling the ill effects of poor WAN performance, you may assume it’s a bandwidth problem. If you invested in more bandwidth and a bigger pipe to ease the pain, and the problem persisted, the problem may be due to packet loss, latency [...]
Dreading the end of the game
Oct 17, 2011 by Leave a Comment
I never look forward to leaving at the end of a ball game. Not because I don’t want the game to end, but because I dread the mass exodus of tens-of-thousands of people congesting aisles, corridors and parking lots. This “bottlenecking” affects the capacity of the entire stadium and is typically limited by the number [...]
Is your WAN caught in a Catch-22?
Oct 4, 2011 by Leave a Comment
You may or may not remember “Catch-22,” the novel published in 1961 by Joseph Heller. Since then, Catch-22 has become a term generally used to describe a “no-win situation,” in which there is no positive outcome from any decision you make. Whether due to unavoidable or unforeseeable circumstances — or outside influences — Catch-22 situations [...]