Celebration time ByteBlower exists 10 years! Well, actually even a little longer… ByteBlower spent its earliest moments safely within the walls of Excentis. It started very small, there was no GUI yet. We needed a tool to generate network traffic. A tool much more versatile, flexible and less expensive than what was available...

UPDATE: On our Github-account ( https://github.com/excentis/ByteBlower_dashboard2 ) you can find the dashboard code of this blogpost rewritten in nodejs and python. Following blogpost explains how you can create an another simple dashboard using our ByteBlower Python API. At Excentis, executing performance measurements and stability tests is a daily job. Of course we use our own ByteBlower to do...

TCP is an old protocol. Its original RFC dates back from 1981. Over time it has been tweaked and tuned in order to keep up with ever increasing demands. In this post I describe how one small tweak can make a big change in performance when using TCP on a 10Gbit Ethernet...

Your boss is unhappy. The advertised network link speed is 1 Gbps, but the attained throughput is only a mere 808 Mbps. Stress time! Luckily, you are able to restore the peace and impress your boss at the same time. You know that each Ethernet frame adds 24 bytes extra...