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The weakest link: the impact of wide area networking on networked application performance

Published: 11 November 2006 Publication History

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In order to ensure end-user satisfaction in a network-centric world, network providers and managers must ensure that applications run properly over Wide Area Networks. Today's end-users are quite savvy. They realize that application performance is not just a function of the available bandwidth. Other metrics can impact application performance. Examples of these metrics are: Delay, Jitter, Packet Loss, Traffic Shaping, Packet Sequencing and Bit Errors.The challenge facing network managers is characterizing and validating that applications run properly over their network. Initially, spools of fiber were used to characterize the delay associated with long-haul networks; however, there was no way to vary delay or emulate other QoS metrics with a spool of fiber. With the advent of network emulators, all combinations and variations of delays and impairments could be tested in order to validate application performance.

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SC '06: Proceedings of the 2006 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
November 2006
746 pages
ISBN:0769527000
DOI:10.1145/1188455
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Published: 11 November 2006

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