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Article: Protocol measures IP performance; TWAMP could provide an effective measure of IP performance among two devices.(Two-Way Active Measurement Protocol)
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- Network World
- Article date:
- June 26, 2006
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Measuring the performance of IP networks through the use of standard protocols has always been a challenge. The inventors
of IP provided some tools, such as Internet Control Messaging Protocol ping, Traceroute and User Datagram Protocol (UDP) Echo,
as part of the TCP/IP suite of protocols. However, these tools were not intended to conduct overall performance measurements
but were designed for simple troubleshooting of IP networks. As a result, there's a need for standards-based, effective performance-monitoring
tools within enterprise networks.
The IETF aims to fill that need with a new draft standard developed by the ...