Network testers are ideal for IDing bad cabling, helping to troubleshoot network issues, estimating cable lengths and determining cable rates. These tools from Fluke Networks, NETSCOUT, and SignalTEK ...

Ixia, a maker of network test systems, will ship in March what it claims is the first conformance test suite to support Mobile IPv6. The software is aimed at network equipment manufacturers and ...

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I use the term “active path testing” to refer to systems that send packets into the network to measure network characteristics. A simple ping test is the most fundamental active path test, but it ...