Category: Monitoring&Analysis

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 […]

July 11, 2022

According to recent research from Flexera, 92% of enterprises have a multi-cloud strategy. However, according to Cisco, network teams are struggling to keep up with the pace of cloud change, with 73% of networking teams spending more of their time […]

June 29, 2022

Despite widespread interest in increasing testing automation, it remains a challenge for organizations, according to new research commissioned by Keysight Technologies. Three-quarters of those surveyed said that their business relies on a combination of automated and manual testing, with only […]

June 13, 2022

The rising trend of zero trust implementation is a direct reaction to increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks. Zero-trust principles foster more effective threat detection because they reject the notion that security happens at the perimeter and that all network traffic is legitimate […]

June 3, 2022

As cyberattacks continue to get more complex, SecOps teams are under increasing pressure to detect and remediate threats more quickly and effectively. To do so, many rely on security operations platforms with full threat detection, investigation, and response (TDIR) capabilities […]

May 18, 2022

5G is picking up acceleration. The total installed 5G global cell sites are expected to expand from 986,000 cell sites in 2021 to 6.6 million cell sites in 2027 at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 44.9%. It is […]

May 18, 2022

RADCOM announced that it was selected by DISH Wireless (DISH) to provide its best-in-class RADCOM ACE solution to monitor customers’ experience across DISH’s 5G Smart Network – the first cloud-native, OpenRAN-based 5G network in the United States. RADCOM ACE will […]

May 12, 2022

The vast oceans and seas of the world are proving no barrier to Ericsson’s IoT connectivity capabilities as the company teams up with offshore communications network leader, Tampnet, to improve operational efficiency and worker safety at some of the world’s […]

May 6, 2022

Cisco this week showcased new predictive network technology which it says will help businesses improve network reliability and performance. The new predictive analytics engine is making its way into new Cisco products going forward, and will help IT teams prevent […]

May 4, 2022

Introduced in 3GPP Rel-10, Minimization of Drive Test (MDT) is a standardized mechanism designed to enable operators to use user devices in a network to collect mobile network data, and thus, reduce the need for traditional drive tests, which are […]

May 2, 2022

Syxsense has announced a new security and endpoint management solution that delivers vulnerability monitoring and remediation across devices and network environments. The IT management and endpoint security vendor stated that the platform – Syxsense Enterprise – delivers a unified solution […]

April 22, 2022

Viavi Solutions is adding to its list of Open RAN testing partnerships and customers, this week announcing that Rakuten Symphony will use Viavi’s TM500 Network Tester to validate performance of solutions ranging from the lab to the field. Viavi said […]

April 8, 2022

Ooredoo Qatar, a leading one-stop national provider of ICT, has signed an agreement with Siemens and Microsoft. The objective of this MoU is to develop digital, Internet of Things (IoT) and software analytics solutions and related use cases by leveraging […]

March 30, 2022

The global enterprise IoT market grew by 22% to a total of $157.9 billion in 2021despite some adverse conditions labncluding labor and chip shortages, according to a study released today by Germany-based research firm IoT Analytics. That figure is slightly […]