Posted: 13th May, 2005 By: MarkJ
ADSLGuide reports that Andrews & Arnold (AAISP), in conjunction with WatchFront Electronics, is preparing to offer its 'FireBrick' product to rival ISP's. FireBrick looks for problems by monitoring each broadband circuit every second:
The 'ping' packets which are used to monitor each line only take up a small amount of the bandwidth available so do not cause any visible slowdown in the service but AAISP claim that they have identified patterns which indicate specific types of problems. This helps to identify situations such as where a Sky box is connected without a microfilter, saving the time of sending a BT engineer out to investigate.