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An unpaid bill might relegate traffic to a low-performance link, a network failure would lead to rerouting around the fault, or traffic from certain classes of user might always be sent over encrypted ...

Does software-defined networking need software-defined network management? Today's network management discipline has numerous problems that will affect software-defined networks (SDNs). The Trouble ...

The most accurate definition of a network management system that I have seen comes from a Cisco training document: “In some cases, it (network management) involves a solitary network consultant ...

Ethernet is becoming ubiquitous on factory floors. Expectations are, for example, that Ethernet nodes in the process industries will nearly double over the next few years. The market research firm IMS ...

Monitoring the right things in your network and making them visible in dashboards can make the difference between proactive and reactive responses to network problems. I recently wrote about using log ...

Over the last decade or so, open source development has skyrocketed, and network management software has ridden that wave. Many frustrated IT administrators have turned to free tools to monitor, ...

Modern network management platforms must go beyond basic monitoring to provide full topology visibility, bulk configuration capabilities and intelligent detection of hidden network elements like ...

Automation, better metrics top list of Cisco’s network-management challenges. Network management has been a source of frustration for Cisco for years. CEO John Chambers annually seems to lament the ...