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• Chilling Network Topology Discovery Patent Application

  I discovered a patent application (not yet granted) this week that gave me chills. Part of its claims* are performing Layer 2 and Layer 3 network topology discovery and display, as of October 2001. Huh? Network topology discovery and display was being... Posted Jul 24 2008, 03:07 PM by tslattery with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: network discovery, network topology, patent

• Useful Visualization

  Visualization of networks has been something that I've been watching for some time and have yet to see anything that looks really interesting. Many vendors use the Tom Sawyer Software package. Netviz had an interesting package but CA (which acquired... Posted Feb 20 2008, 10:27 AM by tslattery with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: network discovery, visualization, auralization, network map, network topology

• Understanding Network Redundancy

  I am regularly surprised by network redundancy designs that are either overbuilt or underbuilt. There seem to be two major themes that drive these designs. I'll address the first theme in this blog entry and the second theme in a successive blog entry... Posted Nov 27 2007, 11:43 AM by tslattery with | with no comments Filed under: network discovery, network topology, network testing