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Kentik

The Starlink Outage and Its Impact on Community Gateways

Aug 18, 2025 By Doug Madory In Kentik
Last month, Starlink suffered its largest outage in years, arguably its biggest since becoming a major internet provider. In addition to the millions of individual customers around the world, the outage disconnected the Community Gateways, customers of Starlink’s new transit service. In this post, we delve into the outage and its impact on these far-flung networks.
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console connect

Console Connect expands in Africa's biggest cloud hub

Aug 18, 2025 By Lily Bennett In Console Connect
South Africa has cemented itself as Africa’s biggest cloud hub, with Johannesburg emerging as a key centre for cloud connectivity in the country. It has seen significant investment from the three major hyperscalers - AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud - all of which have a local presence in Johannesburg. This makes the city a strategic launchpad for cloud services, AI innovation, and digital transformation across the African region.
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auvik

What is the User Lifecycle & How Can IT Teams Manage It?

Aug 18, 2025 By Ben Botti In Auvik
It’s Monday morning, and a new hire is walking into the office for their first day. Before they can dive into the work, they need access to email, project management tools, cloud storage, and a dozen other SaaS apps their role depends on. IT has already been hard at work behind the scenes, provisioning accounts, assigning permissions, and making sure everything is ready the moment they sign in.
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whatsup gold

What is SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol)?

Aug 18, 2025 By Jeff Edwards In WhatsUp Gold
The Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) sure does pack a punch for something with “simple” in its name, as it literally provides the lifeblood of network monitoring and device communications. Network admins rely heavily on SNMP because nearly every technology manufacturer supports the protocol. And, in turn, it enables them to collect information, configure devices and receive alerts about network performance and issues.
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broadcom

All Network Monitoring Tools Are Created Equal, Right?

Aug 15, 2025 By Yann Guernion In Broadcom
There’s a question I hear quite often in my conversations about network management: "Aren't all network monitoring tools basically the same?" Honestly, I understand why so many people feel this way. For as long as I remember, the primary role of these tools has been to tell you when something is already broken. Your team gets an alert—a switch is down, an application is slow, a circuit is saturated—and the fire-fighting process begins.
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broadcom

Scale Observability, Streamline Operations with AppNeta Monitoring Policies

Aug 15, 2025 By Alec Pinkham In Broadcom
In today's sprawling enterprise environments, keeping the network running smoothly isn’t just a technical hurdle—it’s a logistical marathon. Enterprise IT environments are in constant motion. New employees come on board. Contractors rotate in and out. Departments roll out new tools. Corporate offices expand, consolidate, or close. And users demand flawless connectivity from wherever they are.
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Fiber Paths and Failsafes: Why Your Network Design Matters

Aug 14, 2025 By Megaport In Megaport
Redundancy isn’t just a buzzword – it’s the design principle keeping modern AI and cloud applications online. In this Uplink episode, Kevin Schlosser, Interconnection Product Manager at NTT Global Data Centers, explains how resilient infrastructure is engineered to expect failure but remain operational. We explore: Diverse entry points and fiber path management AI-driven bandwidth growth: 100G standard, 400G emerging Cooling innovations for intense compute workloads Why providers without their own fiber may offer the most resilient paths.
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obkio

Network Switch Monitoring: How to Monitor Switch Performance with SNMP

Aug 14, 2025 By Andrii Kernitskyi In Obkio
If you’ve spent any time managing networks, you know the switch is the backbone that keeps everything connected, but it’s easy to take them for granted until something breaks. Monitoring network switches isn’t just “nice to have”; it’s critical if you want to avoid those sudden outages that bring everything to a halt.
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