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goben is a Command Line tool for measuring the TCP/UDP transport layer between applications and the network. The transport layer represents the core of the network architecture and has the important role of assuring the proper communication directly to the running processes on different hosts. The protocol can be best described as a logical communication between apps running on different hosts, meaning that even though they are not physically connected, they act as if they were.

According to the developer, the tool was developed to overcome certain limitations of other network measurement tools. To put it simply, the application can take advantage of a computer's multiple CPUs and not waste processing power, can be used on multiple platforms and comes with a simpler synchronous code flow.

To get started, users need to start the server and then the client that points to the server's address. The app can limit maximum bandwidth and it can spawn multiple concurrent routines capable of handling multiple parallel traffic streams, while putting as little stress on the processor as possible. The results can be exported into an easy-to-read chart in a PNG format, which enables a quick read of the test results. Alternatively, the results can be exported to CSV or YAML.