Patent ID: 8073943

Claim:
An internet protocol network testing apparatus, comprising: a plurality of network analysis devices, each network analysis device operable to conduct a plurality of different kinds of tests, selected from the group consisting of jitter, packet loss, utilization, and packet size, on a different segment between nodes of a distributed internet protocol network; a graphical user interface providing a link to network related measurements by the network analysis devices, to present a test including a visual aggregation of measurement results from the plurality of different kinds of tests from two or more of the plurality of network analysis devices providing a visual indication of one of a plurality of threshold status indicators of each segment on a timeline in a visually correlated manner; perceptibly correlated network-related measurements by two or more of the plurality of network analysis devices through a selectable graphical display of the network analysis devices enabling identification of which of the different kinds of tests caused changes in the threshold status indicator, and a selectable graphical display of at least one network-related measurement for each selected network analysis device; wherein, in response to user selection of the two or more of the network analysis devices, and in response to user selection of the at least one network-related measurement, from the selectable graphical display, the graphical user interface causes the two or more of the network analysis devices and the at least one network related measurement to be added to the test; and wherein the perceptibly correlated network-related measurements are visual correlations as a top-level test view of the test and selectable to navigate to lower test levels of detailed network-related measurement views of each network analysis device.