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Validate LAN installations for optimal service delivery White Paper
This paper discusses what LAN validation is, who benefits and why it should be part of a network installer's and network owner's best practices.
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Best Practices for Fiber Optic Installation Start with Inspection
Whitepaper outlining 1)what to look for and when, 2) how to inspect, 3) how to clean, and 4) best practices
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(328 KB) - EN
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Advancements in field measurement of Ethernet performance White Paper
Various metrics can quantify and characterize performance.
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(532 KB) - EN
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Monitor the core and troubleshoot the access layer with integrated network analysis solutions
Learn how to plan for new application deployment, manage against internal security threats, diagnose network problems, prove it’s not the network, and analyze application problems.
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How to Test to TIA/EIA-568-B.2-10
This paper covers everything you need to know to certify cabling to the new TIA/EIA-568-B.2-10
standard that defines cabling transmission performance to 500MHz and testing for Alien Crosstalk.
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(1.81 MB) - EN
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Advanced OTDR Analysis
This article discusses some of
the advanced OTDR techniques that expert
technicians use to perform during testing.
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(156 KB) - EN
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SearchNetworking E-Guide: An in-depth look at application benchmarking for QoE
In this exclusive E-Guide, enterprise management analyst Dennis Drogseth
offers an in-depth look into application benchmarking for quality of experience
(QoE). This guide offers insight into the difference between QoE benchmarks
and diagnostics for application performance and examines some touchstones
for calculating true QoE.
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(689 KB) - EN
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Voltage Detection Essentials White Paper
Voltage detection essentials for keeping outside plant technicians safe: This white paper gives you tips for selecting and using the right tool on the job.
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(646 KB) - EN
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Automated Test Limits WP
Analyzing and evaluating test results requires time and expertise, and even with the most expert technicians, there is risk of error. This whitepaper examines how test limits can increase your efficiency and profitability during fiber certification.
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(320 KB) - EN
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Frontline LAN Troubleshooting Guide
This comprehensive guide provides frontline network troubleshooters with practical advice on how to maintain LANs and solve common layer 1 and 2 problems.
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(2.58 MB) - EN
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System Integrator Guide
System Integrators Guide to Driving Business Growth through LAN Installation and Validation Best Practices
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(465 KB) - EN
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Choosing Between Optical Loss and Optical Time Domain Reflectometry? Choose Both.
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(476 KB) - EN
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EMA Whitepaper - Impact of Visual Performance Manager
EMA reviews the impact of Visual Performance Manager on global visibility for applications and network performance
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(682 KB) - EN
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The Business Value Of Effective Infrastructure Management By Jim Metzler - Whitepaper
The Business Value of Effective Infrastructure Management - By Jim Metzler
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(250 KB) - EN
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Certifying Power Over Ethernet To Ensure Service Success
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(587 KB) - EN
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Extended Fiber Certification White Paper
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(256 KB) - EN
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Don't gamble with SNMPV3: make sure your upgrade improves security with these best practices
This paper discusses best practices and how using the proper equipment will make the process and ongoing monitoring easier and more accurate.
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How to cable 802.11n Wireless Access Points
This paper discusses the impact 802.11n will have on cabling as well as what installers and enterprises should do to address them.
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(295 KB) - EN
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Troubleshooting Remote Site Networks Best Practices
See how to deliver a high level of network service at remote sites using the best practices outlined in this white paper.
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(598 KB) - EN
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White Paper - Using Netflow Tracker To Extend Uptime Deployment
This paper discusses the benefits of using NetFlow Tracker as a complement to Visual UpTime Select
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(82 KB) - EN
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Performance Management Solution Brief
This solution brief will focus on key attributes and best practices for organizations looking to successfully deploy a performance management strategy across their enterprise.
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(562 KB) - EN
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Super-size your LAN with fiber
Fiber optic technology frees the Local Area Network (LAN) from the confines of a single building, allowing a LAN to extend across a campus or a metropolitan area. Read how fiber optic components affect repeaterless transmission distance and how Metropolitan Area Network (MAN) ownership may require self-assessment of network performance.
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White Paper - Pre And Post Deployment Acceleration Assessments
One step that commonly is overlooked when investigating various proprietary acceleration technologies, is an independent assessment to quantify the perceived benefits and validate the expected ROI. This white paper will touch on various approaches for utilizing assessments to validate ROI.
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(1.02 MB) - EN
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Fixing Ethernet and Fast Ethernet Link Problems White Paper
Gain insight into the basics of Ethernet auto-negotiation; problems that occur and how to detect and repair links that fail.
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(1.59 MB) - EN
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Network World Special Report - Branch Office Networks
Understanding the Changing Nature of Branch-Office Networks
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(328 KB) - EN
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Different Testing Practices for Commercial and Residential Networks White Paper
Find out how testing practices are different between commercial and residential networks, and what types of tools you should use for each.
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(74 KB) - EN
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Certify Fiber Fast White Paper
This paper describes the advantages of using advanced test sets engineered to test fiber links quickly and efficiently.
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(87 KB) - EN
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Copper Cabling Troubleshooting Handbook
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(574 KB) - EN
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SuperAgent and Citrix White Paper
This paper will examine Citrix in the enterprise and a way to monitor the response times of the network and server in such an environment
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(95 KB) - EN
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Voice over IP (VoIP) Basics for IT Technicians White Paper
VoIP brings a new environment to the network technician that requires expanded knowledge and tools to deploy and troubleshoot IP phones.
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(436 KB) - EN
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Wireless Site Survey Best Practices White Paper
Insight into best practices for executing site surveys
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(1.85 MB) - EN
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Voice over IP (VoIP) Test Tools Make the Grade Article
InfoWorld Article on VoIP Test Tools
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(585 KB) - EN
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SuperAgent and Siebel White Paper
Paper explores Siebels n-tiered application suite, the intricacies in identifying response time issues within n-tiered architectures, and an approach to identifying and resolving response time problems using SuperAgent.
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Testing Proves Most Cords Fail TIA Requirements Buyers are not getting what they paid for White Paper
Learn the differences between different patch cords and why they matter on 100Base-T networks or higher speed protocols.
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(792 KB) - EN
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Promise and Pitfalls of 802.11N
This paper discusses the pitfalls that might arise and how to overcome those issues.
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(2.47 MB) - EN
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Guide to Troubleshooting Application Problems
This comprehensive 94 page guide is a how-to resource handbook for network engineers. Learn the fundamentals of how applications work, how they flow, where applications fail and best practices and methodologies for troubleshooting network and application problems.
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(5.65 MB) - EN
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Ethernet In A Harsh Environment - White Paper
Whitepaper that discusses the unique issues that can arise when you deploy Ethernet in an industrial environment, and how to avoid production downtime caused by these issues.
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Application Performance Solution Note
Business value, whether it is revenue growth, improving margins, increasing customer satisfaction or faster time-to-market, is delivered by business capabilities. A significant component of the business capability
is delivered by the Information Technology Group, specifically the infrastructure team and is focused on the availability and performance of business critical networked applications.
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(4.61 MB) - EN
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White Paper - Application Performance Management
Aberdeen Group discusses a lifecycle approach that brings IT and business together.
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(558 KB) - EN
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The Invisible Threat: IPV6 on your network White Paper
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Whitepaper: Ensuring Fiber Readiness For Server Consolidation
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White Paper - A Holistic Approach To Enterprise-wide Performance Management
Communications infrastructures are growing increasingly complex and keeping the infrastructure operating at peak performance is vital to the health and welfare of a business. This paper reviews web based technologies that help to manage complex infrastructure environments.
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(656 KB) - EN
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Whitepaper: Troubleshooting Your Industrial Network
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(242 KB) - EN
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Guide to Troubleshooting Application Problems
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(5.65 MB) - EN
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White Paper: Best Practices For Successfully Implementing Billback Projects
As a component of ITIL Financial Management for IT, a best practice for organizations is to develop a Billback Strategy (also known as Chargeback). Billback is a method of accounting for and reporting on usage of IT resources which enables IT departments to align with business objectives by billing business units for technology costs.
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The Permanent Link in Field Certification Reasons, Advantages, Testing Challenges White Paper
This paper revisits the Permanent Link test model, highlights its benefits, and examines its impact on the operations and performance requirements of field test equipment.
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Ensuring the Health of Tomorrow's Fiber LANs, White Paper
How to Choose an OTDR to Test and Troubleshoot LAN Infrastructure
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(401 KB) - EN
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Network World Special Report - VoIP
VoIP: Challenges, Drivers, Hurdles and Recommendations
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(333 KB) - EN
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Fundamentals of Power Over Ethernet (PoE) White Paper
Learn about the two dominant PoE standards, IEEE 802.3af and Cisco ILP plus advantages of PoE and the challenges associated with its implementation.
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Nemertes Paper: Branch Offices are a big part of the tree White Paper
Branch offices are vital for improving customer service and the bottom line. But managing remote locations can cause significant headaches for the IT and networking staffs.
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Whitepaper - Network Management Approach
Whitepaper: Has Your Network Management Approach Kept Up With Your Network?
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(843 KB) - EN
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Testing Power Over Ethernet (PoE) Enabled Systems Whitepaper
Understand the potential impacts on the certification and testing process.
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(226 KB) - EN
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Outside Plant Documentation Projects: Justification and Implementation
Fluke Networks' major area of expertise is in helping telephone companies improve their network management operations processes. This White Paper covers best practices in support of new network investments and to reduce plant management capital expenditures.
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Wireless Access and Security White Paper
Demystifying Wireless Network Access and 802.1X Security
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(494 KB) - EN
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How to Certify or Re-certify Twisted-Pair Cabling for 10Gb/s Ethernet
Learn how new installation and testing guidelines help combat Alien Crosstalk.
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(717 KB) - EN
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Network Monitoring and Analysis Techniques Using Taps and SPAN Switches
Network Monitoring and Analysis Techniques Using Taps and SPAN Switches
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(902 KB) - EN
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Testing Today's High-Speed Multimode Fiber Infrastructure White Paper
Understand the advantages of testing multimode fiber for high speed network applications (1 or 10 Gigabit/sec data rates) with VCSEL and laser light sources.
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Troubleshooting Wireless LANs to improve Wi-Fi uptime and security White Paper
Read about how to improve security and performance by identifying rogue APs and ad-hoc networks and conducting network audits. Also included is a review of the tools and their effectiveness at troubleshooting wireless LANs.
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VLAN Best Practices White Paper
Learn about VLAN challenges, tags and tagging technologies, maintaining VLANs and how good documentation practices will help troubleshoot problems and optimize VLAN performance.
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(601 KB) - EN
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The Weakest Link in High-Performance Cabling Systems White Paper
See whether your patch cords measure up to your network performance. Recent study reveals that 83% of Cat 6 cords fail to meet the TIA spec requirements.
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Improve Networked Application Performance through SLAs White Paper
Successful Service Level Management (SLM) requires a proactive approach. This paper describes how to transform your team from firefighters to advanced planners with the appropriate tools.
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Troubleshooting Switched Environments White Paper
A basic problem in troubleshooting switches is an inability to see inside. This white paper describes five fundamental approaches to gain visibility into a switch.
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(506 KB) - EN
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Network World Special Report - Application Performance Management
Understanding the true cost of application performance problems a Network World Special Report
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Marketplace Challenges and Opportunities for Incumbent Telecom Carriers White Paper
Read how the use of predictive testing and monitoring techniques assures traditional carriers of more cost effective maintenance of their local loops.
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Effective Change Management Through Application Performance Monitoring White Paper
As the business responds to the competitive environment, IT operations must reflect the larger organizations goals and strategies and ensure networks and applications are keeping pace.
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(1.78 MB) - EN
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Implications of Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) and Other Security and Privacy Measures for Enterprise IT White Paper
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) is intended to put additional measures in place to ensure the accuracy and completeness of financial reporting by corporations.
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(2.18 MB) - EN
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Demystifying Service Level Management White Paper
A whitepaper by Enterprise Management Associates - Service level management (SLM) can be a big step in improving the quality of IT
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Solving Carrier Issues in Transition to Next Generation Services
Fluke Networks is in the business of helping carriers develop processes has next-generation processes to deliver these next-gen services. Our new whitepaper, “Solving Carrier Issues in Transition to Next Generation Services,” shows how automated testing solutions can help carriers deliver “triple play” services with the speed and quality customers expect.
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Certifying 10 Gig SV White Paper
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Proven techniques and best practices for managing infrastructure change
Describes a methodology for managing network changes that meet the need for speed of implementation without sacrificing accuracy.
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White Paper: Complete Solutions for Effective WAN Service Level Management
This paper will review solutions for understanding WAN link bandwidth usage, determining SLA compliance and isolating WAN link faults.
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White Paper: Optimizing Enterprise Security with Visual Uptime Select
White Paper: Optimizing enterprise security via application and network monitoring
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(422 KB) - EN
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White Paper: Migrating To MPLS-BASED Networks - Avoiding The Mistakes Your Peers Have Made
White Paper: Migrating To MPLS-BASED Networks - Avoiding The Mistakes Your Peers Have Made
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Deploying new technologies and applications safely and efficiently - white paper
This white paper highlights several scenarios and shows how to implement new technologies and applications with minimal disruption and continue to deliver a high level of service.
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Gain flexibility Combination taps - Whitepaper
Gain flexibility to data access options with Combination taps - Whitepaper
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(744 KB) - EN
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Managing Network Bandwidth to Maximize Performance - white paper
This white paper describes how to leverage best practices to monitor, baseline, and manage the network bandwidth and performance.
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(1.11 MB) - EN
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NetFlow Tracker Users Guide
NetFlow Tracker Users Guide
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(577 KB) - EN
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Copper and Glass: Securing the Foundation of your 10 Gigabit Data Center
This paper describes the changes 10 Gigabit Ethernet creates for the cabling infrastructure in a data center and the steps to make your 10 Gigabit Ethernet data center successful.
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(333 KB) - EN
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Filtered Network Analysis with Taps - Whitepaper
Filtered Data Access for Network Test, Measurement and Security - Whitepaper
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(477 KB) - EN
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The Invisible Threat: Interference and Wireless LANs
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(81 KB) - EN
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OTDR Trace Analysis White Paper
Learn how an OTDR detects and analyzes test results.
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(684 KB) - EN
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Evaluating Interference in Wireless LANs: Recommended Practices
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Demystifying Interference Problems in the RF Spectrum - White Paper
Many myths and common inaccuracies surround the design and deployment of wireless networks. This white paper helps demystify the top 20 misperceptions about interference problems associated with wireless networks.
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White Paper - Migrating to an MPLS-Based/Private IP Network: Are you ready?
This white paper will discuss the benefits associated with private IP networks as well as the challenges that occur when networks go from Layer 2 to Layer 3 based connectivity.
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Application Performance
Solving Application Performance Problems
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Diagnosing the cause of poor application performance
Outlines the common causes of application performance problems and why having the right diagnostic tool enables quicker identity and resolution.
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Securing your network from the inside: adding a portable layer of protection
Outlines common causes of security threats and how having the right tool can quickly identify those threats.
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White Paper: Building an ROI - Application and Network Performance Management
Building an ROI - Application and Network Performance Management with Visual Performance Manager
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Locating rogue 802.11n and legacy wireless access points
Learn two methods to identify and locate rogue wireless access points.
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(744 KB) - EN
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White Paper: Pre-Deployment VOIP
White Paper: Avoid Three Common Pitfalls with VoIP Readiness Assessments
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(99 KB) - EN
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