Network performance management consists of measuring, modeling, planning, and optimizing networks to ensure that they carry traffic with the speed, reliability, and capacity that is appropriate for the nature of the application and the cost constraints of the organization. This book is your ultimate resource for Network Performance Management. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, analysis, background and everything you need to know. In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Network Performance Management right away, covering: Network performance management, Lag, Round-trip delay time, Packet loss, Retransmission (data networks), Throughput, Data compression, Encryption, Traffic shaping, Netflow, IP Flow Information Export, RMON, Server log, Synthetic monitoring, Real user monitoring, Quality of experience, Packet analyzer, OPNET, PacketTrap, Plixer International, NetQoS, Capacity management, Capacity planning, Network planning and design, Network monitoring, Performance engineering, Performance tuning, Systems engineering, Computer Measurement Group, Network administrator, Network management, Accelops, Accounting management, ActionPacked! Networks, Active monitor, Admon, AdRem Software, Agent Extensibility Protocol, AiCache, Alarm filtering, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Networks and Information Integration, Audit Record Generation and Utilization System, Automounter, Autonomic Networking, Avaya Enterprise Switch Manager, Avaya Proactive Voice Quality Management, Avaya Unified Communications Management, Baselining, BaseN, Bidirectional Forwarding Detection, Big Brother (software), Big Sister (software), Bisection bandwidth, CA Spectrum, Cacti (software), CaLStats, Terry Childs, Cisco Unified Provisioning Manager, Collisionless, Common management information protocol, Common management information service, Comparison of network monitoring systems, User talk: Rayaraddi, Console serv