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Console Connect becomes first to achieve Mplify's new LSO API certification

Console Connect has become the first platform to be certified under Mplify’s (formerly MEF) expanded Lifecycle Service Orchestration (LSO) API Certification Program. The certification recognises Console Connect’s achievement in validating four of Mplify’s key LSO Business APIs – Address Validation, Quote, Product Order, and Product Inventory – ensuring they meet strict standards for conformance and interoperability.

Ribbon Expands Portfolio of DISA JITC-Certified Solutions in Support of U.S. Department of Defense Network Deployments

Ribbon Communications Inc. announces the expansion of its portfolio of Joint Interoperability Test Command (JITC)-certified solutions. The Ribbon Policy Engine Server (PSX), Ribbon Application Management Platform (RAMP), and Ribbon Analytics have been added to the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Approved Products List (APL), reinforcing Ribbon's commitment to delivering secure, mission-critical communications infrastructure.

Introducing 400G Ports

Discover why 400G is growing in popularity across industries, and how you can deploy it with Megaport. The Megaport team is excited to introduce 400G ports. This addition to our network offering gives enterprises, cloud builders, and service providers access to ultra-high bandwidth on demand, making it easier than ever to interconnect clouds, data centers, and services at massive scale. If your IT team is already using 100G bandwidth, the need for 400G might creep up more quickly than you think.

(ServiceNow + Kentik) From Reactive to Proactive: The Rise of Agentic Networks

Agentic AI is not just hype—it’s a force multiplier that enables infrastructure and operations teams to do more, with less effort, in less time. Importantly, it helps IT teams compress time to resolution and even proactively detect and respond to issues, before they escalate.

High Availability by Design | WhatsUp Gold

As IT environments grow more distributed and resilient, the Progress WhatsUp Gold network monitoring solution is evolving to meet the moment. Starting in early 2026, Progress will officially retire the legacy Failover Manager and usher in a new era of high availability (HA) by design. This modern, scalable approach aligns with today’s best practices in infrastructure. Find more information on High Availability by Design.

Automating Connectivity: The Future of Digital Infrastructure

Connectivity powers our world, but the way it’s bought and sold is being transformed. In this episode of Uplink, Michael Reid talks with Ben Edmond, founder and CEO of Connectbase, about building a global marketplace for digital infrastructure. With 4.2 million quotes processed each month and 1.9 trillion rows of connectivity data, Connectbase is revolutionizing how providers and enterprises access real-time intelligence.

Real-time Alerting for Data Center Networks

Kentik’s Phil Gervasi shows how modern data centers—especially those powering AI workloads—can spot and fix problems before they impact performance or budgets. See how Kentik’s Data Explorer helps you identify disruptive flows, reclaim wasted network capacity, and turn insights into real-time alerts. With monitor-only mode and integrations with systems like PagerDuty and ServiceNow, your network becomes its own early warning system—driving uptime, cost savings, and better AI performance.

Optimize application performance at the network layer: introducing HTTP Performance Insights in Frontend Observability

Imagine you’re a frontend engineer monitoring the user experience for an e-commerce app. You notice your checkout flow has a 15% abandonment rate. Your API responses are inconsistent. Your users are frustrated, and you’re drowning in data and complex queries trying to figure out why. Sound familiar? You can use real user monitoring (RUM) to determine what has happened, looking at page load times, error counts, user sessions, etc.