[179952] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Visualware/Speedtest self-hosting alternatives
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Karsten Thomann)
Sun May 17 09:40:07 2015
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From: Karsten Thomann <karsten_thomann@linfre.de>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Sun, 17 May 2015 15:39:56 +0000
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Hi
Am Sonntag, 17. Mai 2015, 08:33:28 schrieb Miles Fidelman:
> Durga Dash wrote:
> > Hi,
> > Are there any turn key solutions out there like Visualware's MCS which you
> > can install in a datacenter and let customers check overall
> > throughput/latency and other metrics from their locations to the
> > datacenter?
> Didn't you just answer your own question? (Visualware MCS).
>
> Of course if all you're interested in is throughput and latency, there's
> ping, traceroute, mtr, iperf, etc. - all of which let customers check
> performance without needing anything special at the datacenter, other
> than a host to ping against.
>
> Miles Fidelman
I've not compared the features of the products, but a possible alternative should be
http://www.ookla.com/netgauge
Karsten
