Annlee Hines is a Network Consulting Engineer at Cisco and a frequent contributor to CertificationZone.com. She has spent the last two years introducing new hardware and software technologies to WAN systems used around the world. Her book "Planning for Survivable Networks: Ensuring Business Continuity", discusses why and how it is necessary to maintain a network disaster recovery plan.
She is currently working on her next book, more Tutorials for CertificationZone.com, and trying to catch up on her certifications.
I recently had the less-than-entertaining experience of a series of emails
exchanged with a customer (manager level) on how to measure the “perceived
user experience of throughput” through one of our nodes in their network.
Since this node is one of many – very many – in the end customer’s data
path, I responded with a link to the DSL Reports web site and its series of
speed tests (http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest?flash=1 – I find them
useful for comparison purposes). That, after all, is the throughput the user
will perceive
He replied, most unhappily.
It seemed, after much email talk back-and-forth, that what he really wanted
was a means to measure the per-user throughput via a MIB on this particular
node. Since the node has up to 40 distributed processors, each of which is
capable of supporting 65,000 (old hardware)/136,000 (new hardware) user
sessions simult... (more)
Annlee Hines is a Network Consulting Engineer at Cisco and a frequent contributor to CertificationZone.com. She has spent the last two years introducing new hardware and software technologies to WAN systems used around the world. Her book "Planning for Survivable Networks: Ensuring Business Continuity", discusses why and how it is necessary to maintain a network disaster recovery plan.
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