IP, or Internet Protocol, traffic returned to "near-normal performance levels within about an hour" after the spike in traffic shortly after the attacks occurred, said the Austin, Texas-based company.

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However, when such switches are inter-connected the underlying communication protocols can disturb local traffic and more importantly fall-short of scaling this performance to devices connected multiple hops away.

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Opnet eventually turned that customization into NetCop, an application giving network managers a dashboard-like view of traffic flow and performance.

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As the company explains to us in a statement (after the break), it's concentrating on supporting Watch in those regions with the "highest engagement" while dropping those with "less application traffic" -- in short, markets with poor performance get the boot.

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Last year, he announced plans to classify the performance of English hospital trusts using a simple traffic-light system of green, amber and red.

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We created Qualcomm StreamBoost to recognize and optimally allocate network traffic, providing users with the best Internet performance possible on all connected devices-right out of the box.

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Actual flight performance has gotten more unpredictable because of problems in the air-traffic control system.

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This performance- and data-oriented policy allowed Melty to grow very fast in business and traffic.

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In today's Wi-Fi networks, faced with increased traffic and more demanding applications, TDLS links between devices improve overall network performance, reduce latency caused by heavy AP traffic, and avoid interference, thereby improving the user experience.

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