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Telemetry Now Teaser: "What's the real cost of delivering this traffic?"

Why is it so difficult to answer the age-old question CFOs are asking, "What's the real cost of delivering this traffic?" Complex billing structures and cost modeling are only part of it. Lauren Basile joins Phillip Gervasi to discuss turning network telemetry into financial insight in the latest episode of Telemetry Now.

You don't need a real outage to find your weak spots.

Modern digital services rely on complex systems, and chaos can strike at any layer. But the most effective teams don’t wait for failure to learn. They simulate it. By introducing controlled performance degradations, you can stress your systems, test your dependencies, and uncover hidden risks without touching production. In our latest webinar, Catchpoint experts walk through how teams are building resilience through proactive, safe failure testing, and why it’s become a cornerstone of digital reliability.

Introducing Puppet Edge: The Future of Network and Edge Device Management

Discover how Puppet Edge is revolutionizing infrastructure management by combining declarative and imperative approaches into one powerful solution. In this video, Margaret Lee, a product leader at Puppet, introduces Puppet Edge and explains how it simplifies the management of your entire estate, from network to edge devices.

Beyond Automation: The Rise of Agentic Networks

Agentic AI is the next evolution in network management, moving beyond simple automation to intelligent systems that can reason, plan, and act autonomously. Justin Ryburn, Kentik Field CTO, highlights how this shift automates expertise, enables proactive problem-solving, and empowers human engineers for strategic innovation.

ICMP Monitoring: What Is ICMP & How It Works

Ever “pinged” a server and wondered what those milliseconds actually mean? If you’re a network admin or IT pro, you already use ping as a quick sniff test. But ICMP is more than a green checkmark or a scary timeout. In this article, we’ll define ICMP, walk through how echo requests and replies work, and show how to turn basic pings into useful network and ICMP monitoring.

Introducing SCION with Anapaya and Megaport

Discover how SCION is transforming internet routing, and how Anapaya and Megaport Virtual Edge are simplifying its adoption. Enterprise internet routing is anything but simple. With distributed endpoints, data security, and service reliability to consider, it doesn’t take long for network teams to feel overwhelmed with a complicated mess of workarounds and add-ons that become increasingly difficult to oversee and manage.

Acumen - AIOps Automation Platform

Ribbon Acumen is an AIOps & Automation platform for voice and data networks. It's comprised of a series of ready-made applications and a Builder capability that enables organizations to combine those applications with AI to create custom workflows. Those workflows can analyze and react to data from devices and applications, enabling Acumen to automate network deployment and operations, as well as provide tools to rapidly resolve issues.

AI in Server Monitoring: Why Human Context Still Matters in 2025

When Microsoft rolled out Windows Server 2025 last November, it marked a turning point in how IT teams think about monitoring. Suddenly, AI-powered features like anomaly detection, predictive resolution, and even self-healing aren’t ideas on a roadmap — they’re built into the very fabric of enterprise infrastructure.

From Feathers to Fiber: The Fast Lane of Battlefield Intel

Carrier pigeons once flapped through war zones with vital messages. Today? Sensor fusion delivers battlefield intel faster than thought. The fight isn’t just about who has the data, it’s about who moves on it first. Speed wins wars now! Read how it’s changing the game, how deployable command and control (C2) nodes can help, and why network slicing is a key ingredient in building a resilient, high-speed transport network: Carrier Pigeons to Sensor Fusion: Speed Matters in Information.