Network monitoring is a critical component of your network management strategy that provides valuable insights into network-related problems which can affect your organization. When you monitor networks regularly, you'll mitigate risks like overloaded networks, router problems, downtime, cybercrime, and data loss. Network monitoring lets you: All successful companies invest in network monitoring tools that provide accurate insights into performance, speed, security, and productivity.

For DX Unified Infrastructure Management (DX UIM) customers, there are significant benefits to be gained by staying current with the latest releases—and that’s especially true now. The latest version, release 20.4 cumulative update (CU) 5, offers a significant number of enhancements and new capabilities. This new release provides teams with a number of advantages, including increased flexibility, improved operational efficiency, and enhanced insights.

Early this year we launched Kentik Market Intelligence (KMI). If you missed it, KMI enumerates transit and peering relationships as well as produces rankings based on the volume of IP space transited by ASes in different geographies. Using tables and charts, KMI offers a global view of the internet out-of-the-box without any configuration or setup. KMI uses public BGP routing data to rank ASes based on their advertised IP space.

International Internet Day (10/29) is an occasion for people to celebrate the great invention that transformed the way we live, work, and communicate. The day is an annual reminder of how far we have come since the creation of the internet and where it might take us in the future. Let us look into how the internet invaded every aspect of our daily lives and became indispensable.