Network Provisioning

The Provisioning process monitors access rights and privileges to ensure the security of an enterprise's resources and user privacy. As a secondary responsibility, it ensures compliance and minimizes the vulnerability of systems to penetration and abuse. As a tertiary responsibliity, it tries to reduce the amount of custom configuration using boot image control and other methods that radically reduce the number of different configurations involved.

Traffic Congestion vs. Traffic Control: Solving Last Mile Connection Speed Problems - September 21, 2007

It is important to measure the actual data flow of a connection to get a meaningful picture of connection throughput. See how MySpeed measures and reports data transfers, and helps identify performance impacted by network congestion and traffic control.
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