Patent ID: 7039015

Claim:
In a communication environment having at least a first and a second communication device, said communication devices configured to couple user devices to the network, and a network management system, a system for displaying network performance information, comprising: a plurality of network performance parameter views, comprising a bit burst analysis view, a network latency view, a data delivery success view and a frame size distribution view, wherein said views are associated with a virtual circuit between the first and the second communication device; and display means for presenting to a user said plurality of network performance parameter views, where said bit burst analysis view comprises a plurality of bit burst counters, each of said bit burst counters counting one or more bit bursts that was placed into one of a plurality of burst categories, wherein each of said bit burst counters counts the one or more bit bursts that was placed into one of the plurality of burst categories during a sliding window time interval, the time interval synchronized to begin with detection of the first of the one or more bit bursts.