Independent Networks

Your trusted source for Independent Network Testing

Your business runs on networked applications, Cloud Computing, VoIP, IP-Video and other critical applications that require you to keep your network running at high levels of performance. Any drop in bandwidth or increase in latency can make these applications unusable.

While you’re responsible for delivering the overall performance, your inability to test and troubleshoot end-to-end paths makes it difficult to resolve network issues.

Independent Networks will test and pinpoint the exact cause and location of these issues on the full path.

Independent Networks supports your IT initiatives on your WAN and LAN.

VoIP

VoIP, Unified Communication and IP Video can bring great efficiencies to organizations. But they also place high performance requirements on network resources which can complicate your operations. Read More »

MPLS Conversions

More and more organizations have converted their networks to multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) because of the benefits it brings. These include lower costs, higher performance (important for applications such as VoIP and IP video) and better reliability. However, such a large infrastructure change brings risks, especially during the migration stage from traditional technologies such as Frame Relay and ATM. Application migration requires close monitoring of the network to ensure that users are not negatively impacted by the change. Read More »

SLA Validation

The centralization of IT resources along with the growing use of software-as-a-service (saas) and infrastructure-as-a-service (iaas) means that virtually all of your users access applications over the WAN. So when WAN problems crop up, the performance of those applications degrades and your Help Desk lines heat up. Read More »

Cloud Computing

Cloud computing. There’s a lot of buzz about it lately and everyone seems to be adopting it. Public clouds, private clouds, hybrid clouds, software-as-a-service, platform-as-a-service, infrastructure-as-a-service, virtualization - all of these can be considered part of cloud computing. That’s why cloud computing can be a bit confusing for people. Read More »

Virtual Service Delivery

Studies show that most organizations have adopted some level of virtualization in their datacenters, including server, storage and OS virtualization. The benefits are real, lower overall costs, improved utilization rates and greater resiliency. Read More »

HSPA, WAN and Internet links

The last 18 months have seen a huge upswing in the adoption of mobile broadband globally, especially relating to PC connectivity through 3G USB “dongles”, as well as high-end smartphones like the Apple iPhone™. Very shortly, High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSPA) will be the technology behind over 70 percent of Mobile Broadband connections. However every single application is different and every link needs to be tested to meet SLAs. Read More »