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External Resources
Manufacturers
Resellers
- Appliansys
- European Electronique
- MXWorks
- Network Appliance
- Systems Integration and Cabling LTD (SICL)
- LanForge - Traffic Generation software used on development network
- Allot NetEnforcer
- PacketHound
- Real Media
- Microsoft Windows Media
- V-Web from Venation
- Bluecoat
Other Links
- CBM Working Group (Internet2)
- Managed Bandwidth - Next Generation
- JISC Regional Support Centres (RSCs)
- The Linux Bandwidth Arbitrator
- LANSleuth - Performance and account monitoring on Windows based systems
- LogiSense engageIP Traffic Manager - Bandwidth Management , cache server, web content filter, router and firewall in one device.
- NetIQ - A number of different solutions for monitoring Windows and Unix based systems.
- RzK GmbH - Performance and account monitoring software for Windows based systems
- ViaScope - Performance and account monitoring software for Windows based systems
- Axial Systems Limited - Resellers of a variety of analysis and monitoring tools
- BMC Software Patrol series - Performance monitoring solutions
- Chevin Performance Manager - Performance measurement tool
- MARS - Network performance monitor
- MRTG - Monitors the load on traffic links. Runs on UNIX and Windows NT based systems
- Network Instruments Observer - Windows based software solution for performance and fault monitoring.
- Open Channel Foundation - Pikt - Fault and performance monitoring software available under the GPL for most flavours of UNIX and the Sun OS
- Precise - Performance monitoring for IBM and Microsoft SQL based systems.
- RippleTech LogCaster - Fault monitoring for Windows based systems.
- Sniffit Page - A packet sniffer available under the Gnu Public Licence (GPL) for most flavours of UNIX
- Statscout - Performance and fault monitoring tool for medium to large scale LANs
- Treno - Performance testing tool. Open Source
- Visual Pulse - Performance and fault monitoring for Windows, UNIX and Apple OS X
- WhatsUp and WhatsUp Gold - Performance monitoring for Windows based systems.
- NSS test of Chevin's TeVISTA monitoring programme which uses the HSRmon protocol.
- Computer Reseller News article on SNMP
- An outline of SNMP and RMON from Perfman
- Cisco's RMON Catalyst Worksgroup Switch documentation
- Cisco RMON information"Management costs can be lowered through the use of inexpensive tools" - A very interesting article from Enterprise Networking Magazine, written by Andrew Chalmers
- Cisco's SNMP documentation
- SNMP world 'SNMP for Dummies' document - unknown author
- SC magazines review of TeVISTA- a network monitoring system, by Berni Dwan
- Linux Virtual Server
- Linux Heartbeat
- MRTG - the popular traffic load monitor
- Squid - Squid cache server
- SquidGuard - free content filter for use with Squid caching software
- Squid Developers' Resource Page - an amazing amount of information about Squid + other links
- Caching the web with Linux - David Guerrero.
- The FULL Squid configuration guide .
- Avirt Gateway Server (a.k.a. Spaghetti) - Windows 9x/NT/ME/2000
- Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server - Windows 2000 Server
- Microsoft Proxy Server
- Viking- Windows NT, 9x, 2000, and XP
- Wingate - Windows 9x, ME, NT SP , 2000, XP
- Winproxy - Windows 9x /NT 4 / 2000/ ME
- Win Route Pro - all Windows OS
- Youngzsoft CCproxy - Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP
- Apache Http server - Apache server has a proxy module
- Border Manager - NetWare 5.1 SP 4 or NetWare 6.0 SP1
- IBM WebSphere Edge Server - IBM AIX, Linux, Sun Solaris, Windows 2000 Server
- Intergate- MacOS X 10.1 or above, System Software 7.6.1, 8.x, 9.x, Microsoft Windows 95, 98, NT4 SP3, 2000, Me or XP
- iPlanet Sun ONE Web Proxy Server - Sun Solaris 8/ Solaris 2.6, Windows NT 4 SP6, Windows 2000 Server SP1 and Windows 2000 Advanced Server, H.P HP-UX 11.0 and IBM AIX 4.3.3
- LogiSense engageIP Cache Server - available as hardware appliance or as a software only version. Compatible with Microsoft Windows 2000/ NT and Linux.
- Caching.com - Excellent resource with lots of information
- Cache Now! is a campaign to raise awareness about web caching.
- Brian Davidson's Web caching and content delivery resources - a wealth of information including a good introduction to caching.
- The DESIRE Web caching architecture recommendations . Very useful - includes a web caching system design checklist.
- IRCache Home Page - details the IRCache project which was formed in 1995, and has many useful resources.
- Joe Coopers' High Performance Web Caching with Squid - article describing how you can tweak Squid to get the best performance.
- O'Reilly Books - Web Caching by Duane Wessels, available to buy online from the O'Reilly website
- Terena (the Trans-European Research and Education Networking association) - has many caching links which can be found through a searchable front end.
- Web cache.com - A fairly up to date and comprehensive list of caching resources
- http://www.nwfusion.com/reviews/2000/0410revtrend.html - a review of how making a website cacheable can be beneficial to both web master and visitor
- http://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP/Object_Headers.html - the W3C organisations definition of HTTP headers which can be used to make your website more cache friendly.
- DansGuardian - content filtering for Linux 2.2, FreeBSD 4.3, OpenBSD or Solaris 8.
- WebFilter - WebFilter extension to Cern's httpd web server
- CyberPatrol - standalone filtering software for Macintosh and Windows
- GuardOne BizGuard Internet Filter - BizGuard Proxy Server is available for Apache Web servers for Windows NT and Linux.
- NetNanny - For Windows 98, 2000 and XP
- Bess - educational filter software for Windows and Red Hat Linux
- Carpe Diem- email content filtering
- CyberSitter - for Windows 95/98, Me, NT, 2000, XP
- Content Keeper - for Red Hat Linux
- LogiSense engageIP Content Filter - filter plugin in for engageIP's Cache Server and Traffic Manager
- PureSight by iCognito - Linux (RedHat 7.2), Windows 2000 Server or Advanced Server / NT server SP 6
- Surf Control - for Windows and Linux
- WebCleanser - independent hardware device
- Websense - Can be integrated with many different network components such as Cisco Catalyst, Cisco Routers, MS ISA, CyberGuard, Sun One Web Proxy Server to name but a few. FE advice from a JASPER FE meeting - http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue24/jasper-fe/
- JANET(UK)'s Guidance Notes on filtering for the academic community
- This paper was written by Lori Bowen Ayre for the US Infopeople Project
- Introduction to Data Compression
- Data Compression - a detailed resource on the subject
- PKZIP - file compression / decompression for UNIX and Windows
- Winzip - file compression / decompression for Windows
- gzip - a free compression utility
- bzip2 - a free compression utility
- PNG - 'Portable Network Graphics'. Lossless image data compression
- GIF - Popular lossless image data compression format
- JPEG - Popular 'lossy' image data compression format
- MPEG - 'Moving Picture Experts Group' format for digital audio and video
- Ogg Vorbis - free general purpose audio format
- mod_gzip - An 'Internet Content Acceleration module' for the popular Apache Web Server
- Base64 - encoding for text only media such as email
- news:comp.compression - Data compression newsgroup
- Instructions on how to turn off HTML/ Multimedia handling in email clients -
- DivX(r) - video technology
- An overview of the MPEG-4 standard
- An overview of the MPEG-2 standard
- AC3 filter information - audio compression used in conjunction with video which can produce surround sound
- Measuring voice quality on Voice over IP Networks
- European Electronique
- http://www.clickandgovideo.ac.uk A (now finished) JISC Service site which contains a very useful guide to using streaming video within an educational environment
- http://www.jvcs.video.ja.net/The JANET Video Conferencing Service homepage.
- http://www.video.ja.net/The home of the JANET(UK) funded Video Technology Advisory Service (VTAS)
- http://www.wvn.ac.uk/The JANET(UK) and ELWa Welsh Video Network.
- Secure Computing - Smartfilter
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