Computerworld recently showcased 10 great free network management tools. Readers responded with some of their own favorites, so I’m going to take a look at those tools and report on their capabilities ...

Open source security frameworks help enterprises stay one step ahead of attackers by facilitating penetration testing and vulnerability assessments on wired and wireless networks. Picking just 10 ...

I have just started a job with a company whose network spans several buildings in a campus-like setting. One of the tools I know I will need is a protocol analyzer. The current budget allows for me to ...

Vendors would have you believe you need to spend thousands of dollars on protocol analyzer software to troubleshoot Voice over IP (VoIP) networks. After all, voice quality suffers if packets are late, ...

Acrylic WiFi Scanner is free software for Windows that can be used for real-time WiFi network analysis. It can display WiFi access points and connected devices near you and gather information from a ...

Software really is the test instrument. Lecroy's BitTracer, which runs on the PETracer Gen2 Summit PCI Express Protocol Analyzer, provides a physical-layer view of PCI Express traffic that's similar ...