Category: Monitoring&Analysis

June 21, 2023

Looking to improve network visibility, Cisco plans to buy Accedian Networks, makers of software for monitoring and analyzing network performance.Founded 2004, Accecian sells Skylight, a platform that diagnoses problems and recommends remediation to fix them. The package is aimed at […]

June 16, 2023

Spirent Communications yesterday announced the availability of its new over-the-air (OTA) performance monitoring solution designed to bring the network edge into the complete end-to-end test and monitoring landscape. The Spirent Mobile Test Platform (MTP) is a simple-to-deploy small form factor […]

May 18, 2023

Businesses are increasingly turning to purpose-built, custom applications to manage mission-critical processes. In fact, the average enterprise-level organization now has more than 460 custom applications to manage, according to the Cloud Security Alliance. Of course, there are many advantages to […]

May 2, 2023

Today’s enterprise networks span on-premises and cloud environments, and it has become a lot harder for IT teams to maintain performance, reliability and security when some parts of the network are unknown or off-limits to traditional performance monitoring tools. “If […]

March 27, 2023

With the assistance of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), predictive network technology alerts administrators to possible network issues as early as possible and offers potential solutions. The AI and ML algorithms used in predictive network technology have become […]

March 21, 2023

The scale of data which AT&T processes is staggering: More than 590 petabytes on a daily basis, the equivalent of 6.5 million 4K movies. Being able to process its data faster and more efficiently means tangible improvements in reduced cost […]

March 14, 2023

It’s been five years since Gartner introduced a new term to the IT world – Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM), an evolution of Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and End User Experience Monitoring (EUEM). Though it has received subtle tweaks over the […]

March 6, 2023

With the public release of ChatGPT and Microsoft’s $10-billion investment into OpenAI, artificial intelligence (AI) is quickly gaining mainstream acceptance. For enterprise networking professionals, this means there is a very real possibility that AI traffic will affect their networks in […]

February 22, 2023

If you look at major global corporations, you’ll like notice an increasing emphasis on reducing power consumption, achieving net-zero carbon emissions, and all around making business greener. The telecommunications sector is no different with many major operators committing to substantial […]

February 21, 2023

Network monitoring is the process of continuously monitoring a computer network to ensure that it is functioning properly and is available to users. It involves monitoring network devices, such as routers, switches, and servers, as well as the performance of […]

February 8, 2023

T-Mobile US garnered the overall best 5G experience in the second half of 2022, per Rootmetrics, but AT&T also had a strong performance at the state level and Verizon did particularly well at the metro level. That’s a bit of […]

February 7, 2023

Cisco has strengthened some of its key security software packages with an eye toward better protecting distributed enterprise resources. Specifically, Cisco added more intelligence to its Duo access-protection software and introduced a new application called Business Risk Observability that can […]

January 31, 2023

When it comes to 5G, its important to note that the functionality, the differentiation and the majority of the use cases that bring revenue happen at the core of the network. While the 5G core network presents somewhat of a […]

January 9, 2023

The recent pandemic forced companies to accelerate the pace of their digital transformation and adapt to the new way of doing business. We saw companies of all sizes, across all industries, compelled to invest in advanced, collaborative technologies. But perhaps […]

January 5, 2023

Network monitoring is the art of analyzing an IT network’s status and performance for optimal reliability. The tools and techniques I use have evolved over time to best support today’s vast ecosystems of modern hardware and virtualization technologies. Since the […]

November 29, 2022

According to a recent Sapio Research study, there’s a 20% chance that your business will suffer a network degradation or brownout today. When that happens, your department will spend about 2.5 hours tracking down the root cause and fixing it […]

October 25, 2022

The engineers and technicians of tomorrow must be trained with the best test and measurement equipment of today. Employers expect graduates to be familiar with the tools and techniques used in the industry to hit the bench running with mastery […]

September 16, 2022

Rohde & Schwarz says it is the first test company with an over-the-air test system that is CTIA-authorized for multiple angles-of-arrival (AoA) testing, which is an important aspect of 5G device performance in millimeter-wave bands. R&S said that testing multiple […]

August 26, 2022

My early enterprise surveys from 30 years ago showed that the largest reported source of network outages was human error. Today, that’s still the case, and in fact human error leads any equipment or transmission cause by a larger margin […]

August 9, 2022

It’s almost like magic, but predictive network technology is anything but a trick. Using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine language (ML) mathematical models and algorithms, predictive network technology alerts an organization to network issues as early as possible and offers […]