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Modernizing Network Monitoring with InfluxDB and Telegraf

This article was originally published in The New Stack. As the technology landscape continues to change at a rapid pace, enterprise companies are in a rush to catch up and modernize their legacy IT and network infrastructure to capture the benefits of newly developed tools and best practices. By adopting modern DevOps techniques, they can reduce their operational costs, increase the reliability of their services and improve the overall speed and agility at which their IT teams are able to move.

Achieve End-to-End Network Visibility for SASE

Enterprise networks now extend out over the internet due to cloud migrations, SaaS applications and hybrid work approaches. To support this, organizations are adopting SASE solutions to extend their traditional secure web gateways into the cloud. Having complete network visibility from end-to-end across these distributed environments is critical in safeguarding user experience. AppNeta and DX NetOps from Broadcom Software help you achieve network visibility anywhere, assuring the security and performance users can rely on.

Network AF, Episode 13: Talking networking and PR with Ilissa Miller

In this episode of the Network AF podcast, Avi Freedman connects with Ilissa Miller, network whisperer and PR industry veteran. Ilissa and her team translate technology into business terms by helping clients understand the value and functionality of a company. Avi asks Ilissa how she got into the field, her biggest takeaways that helped launch her own business and what’s important in today’s networking world.

The Future of Monitoring: Turning Unknown Unknowns into Known Knowns

To ascertain risk, national security and intelligence professionals have long used concepts such as known knowns, known unknowns, and unknown unknowns. The idea of unknown unknowns was created in 1955 by American psychologists Joseph Luft (1916–2014) and Harrington Ingham (1916–1995). This concept continues to be used today in risk assessments and is applicable to technology. The unknown unknowns are the threats and potential problems that remain invisible until their impact manifests.

A practical guide to container networking

An important part of any Kubernetes cluster is the underlying containers. Containers are the workloads that your business relies on, what your customers engage with, and what shapes your networking infrastructure. Long story short, containers are arguably the soul of any containerized environment. One of the most popular open-source container orchestration systems, Kubernetes, has a modular architecture.

How to Measure VoIP Quality & MOS Score (Mean Opinion Score)

VoIP Quality is highly reliant on network performance, which means that many network problems like packet loss, latency, and jitter can cause high levels of VoIP degradation. To avoid embarrassing choppy voice calls, or lagginess during your next client meeting, we’re running you through how to measure VoIP Quality with MOS Score (Mean Opinion Score).

Why Build a Transport Network

Since the days of voice calls transmitted along the top wire of a cattle fence, telecom providers have been looking for new and better ways to transport their service offerings. Today there is a wide array of alternatives from optical to switched and routed, logical mesh, ring, and star architectures to choose from. How do you know which is right for you? What is the best mix of design, build and manage features to carry you into the future? Moreover, how do you keep your project cost-effective?