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Monitoring the Remote Workforce with Endpoint Agents at AIM Specialty Health
Yesterday we launched a brand new product and our newest innovation, the Endpoint Agent. Extending the periphery of network intelligence all the way to the end user, the Endpoint Agent provides real...
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ThousandEyes Charms the Audience at Networking Field Day 12
On August 12th, 2016 ThousandEyes dazzled the delegation of independent thought leaders at Networking Field Day 12 in Santa Clara, California. ThousandEyes was one of the nine companies presenting at...
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Two New Chat Integrations: Slack and HipChat
If you’re like most ops teams, you’re heavy users of alerts from your various systems and sensors. Our customers at ThousandEyes are sending out thousands of alert notifications per day. That’s a lot...
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Monitoring FTP Servers and File Transfer Performance
This week we added support for File Transfer Protocol (FTP) with a new web layer test, the FTP Server Test. This new tests helps network ops teams quickly visualize and troubleshoot file transfer...
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Comprehensive Alerting for Route Leaks and Hijackings
In past blogs, we’ve explored a specific BGP issue that can have far-reaching, large-scale impacts on networks across the Internet: route leaks and hijackings. In this post, we’ll discuss alerting for...
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Monitoring VoIP and RTP in an Enterprise WAN
IP Telephony or VoIP has been built upon two foundational blocks – the telephone and the Internet. It has taken over 40 years for both the telecommunication industry and the computing industry to...
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Trans-Atlantic Issues in the Level 3 Network
Beginning at 10:55pm Pacific on May 3, 2016, the Level 3 network experienced severe network issues across several coastal locations in the U.S. and the U.K. The incident was mentioned on the Outages...
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The Ongoing War Between China’s Great Firewall and Circumvention Tools
In previous posts, we’ve explored many of the pieces that make up China’s vast system of censorship, including the Great Firewall, a huge content-filtering machine, and the Great Cannon, a powerful...
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Using Anycast for Internet Services
We’re increasingly seeing anycast being used for the delivery of Internet services. It’s been around for a while with the DNS root, but many CDNs and even HTTP-based applications are now making use of...
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SEA-ME-WE-4 Cable Fault Has Ripple Effects Across Networks
On May 17th 2016, we started seeing a string of network and BGP routing issues that were spread across continents. A deeper look revealed correlated behaviour resulting from possible mishaps in the...
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Network Visibility for the Reverse Path
This week we announced a new feature to visualize reverse network paths and collect more granular metrics in each direction of the flow. This is especially useful in portions of the network with...
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Visibility into Service Delivery for Telecommuters at AIM Specialty Health
We just got back from New York after hosting our second Connect event of the year. Keeping up with tradition, we welcomed speakers from a variety of industry verticals: healthcare, Internet security...
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Network Visibility in NAT Environments
Last week we released Agent-to-Agent tests, a new feature that enhances Path Visualization by providing both forward and reverse path visibility and granular network metrics like loss and latency in...
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Reporting for your NOC: Box & Whiskers and Widget Carousel
We’re seeing continual growth in the use of the ThousandEyes platform in Network Operations Centers (NOCs). When you step into a NOC of any size, the first thing you notice is the variety of displays...
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Secure DNS Management: Best Practices
The Domain Name System (DNS) is one of the most critical components of IT infrastructure. All online services depend on its proper operation. Without DNS, users are unable to access email, CRM...
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How to Analyze a DDoS Attack on DNS Infrastructure
On May 16th, 2016, NS1, a DNS and traffic management vendor, was a victim of a widespread DDoS attack that affected a number of prominent websites and services, including Yelp and Alexa. The DDoS...
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Host Enterprise Agents on Cisco Routers for Network Visibility
Over the last few months we have been making it easier for our users to deploy Enterprise Agents in their own networks. Enterprise Agents query the network to determine the health of your...
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DDoS Attack Has Varying Impacts on DNS Root Servers
On June 25, 2016, all 13 DNS root servers suffered from a major distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. This wasn’t the first time in recent memory that attacks were aimed at critical DNS...
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Where to Deploy Agents in Enterprise Networks
As you might have noticed, over the last few months we have slowly but steadily extended our range of Enterprise Agent deployment models. Since then we have been getting requests to provide guidance...
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Analyzing Internet Performance Issues with Traffic Outage Detection
If you’ve ever suffered from a large-scale outage and not known where to turn for reliable updates and information, you’re not alone. Today’s launch of Internet Outage Detection marks the culmination...
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