On April 14, 1997, VitalSigns, Inc. of Santa Clara, CA was launched, and on the same day announced their first product: net.Medic (shown above), which is based in part on tools developed in the OCEANS Group at Boston University.

• VitalSigns Home Page.
• VitalSigns collection of links on Internet Measurement including their acknowledgement of the OCEANS Group.
• Washington Post article on VitalSigns and referring to Boston University.
• Boston University Today article on OCEANS Group contributions to net.Medic
• Boston University Press Release announcing OCEANS Group contributions to net.Medic.
• Papers describing measurement methods:
  • Robert L. Carter and Mark E. Crovella, "Measuring Bottleneck Link Speed in Packet-Switched Networks", TR-96-006, Boston University Computer Science Department, March 15, 1996. Slightly modified version appears in Performance Evaluation, Vol 27&28, 1996. postscript version.
  • Mark E. Crovella and Robert L. Carter, "Dynamic Server Selection in the Internet", in Proceedings of the Third IEEE Workshop on the Architecture and Implementation of High Performance Communication Subsystems (HPCS'95), August 1995. Also available as TR-95-014, Boston University Computer Science Department, June 1995.
    HTML version and postscript version.