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How to Use IP SLA Technology to Assess WAN Performance

By Aaron Leskiw, CCDA, CCNA, MCSE, ITILv3, MCSA, A+ on January 16, 2012

Have you ever received complaints from your remote sites about poor network performance?  Do you have service level agreements with your service provider with no way to verify their performance?  This document will describe how you can address these issues using IP SLA technology. IP SLA is a feature included in the Cisco IOS software […]

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Quick Tips: How to Monitor Multicast Traffic with NetFlow Traffic Analyzer

By Aaron Leskiw, CCDA, CCNA, MCSE, ITILv3, MCSA, A+ on November 8, 2011

Problem: Streaming media applications consume a lot of bandwidth, because they use multicast to deliver content.  In most cases, the applications that are using multicast to deliver their content are not business critical applications.  However, there are time s when streaming media IS the mission critical app and so needs to be prioritized. Answer:  NetFlow […]