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The familiar scene unfolds: Critical applications are sluggish, user complaints are mounting, and the IT war room is buzzing. Eyes quickly dart towards the network team. It’s an almost instinctual reaction. But what happens when the problem isn't within the corporate LAN or even the data center? What if the real culprit lurks somewhere in the vast, untamed wilderness of the internet, a cloud provider's backbone, or a third-party SaaS application’s infrastructure?

For decades, the enterprise network was a well-defined fortress and network engineers were its meticulous guardians. However, their visibility and control was largely confined within the parameters of their organization's infrastructure. The cloud revolution and the ubiquity of SaaS applications have shattered these traditional boundaries. Today, for virtually every organization, the internet is the new enterprise network.

In recent years, network performance and business performance have become increasingly intertwined. Now, virtually every critical employee and customer service is in some way reliant upon network connectivity. When connectivity falters, those critical processes can be impaired or stopped completely. However, for too many teams, it can be difficult to knowledgeably determine how specific outages or issues actually affect a business service. For example, say an operator discovers a device is down.

Within the utility sector, a lot is changing. Utilities continue to pursue digital transformation, altering the way services are delivered and operations are managed. What hasn’t changed is the criticality of the services provided. These organizations deliver essential resources like natural gas, electricity, and water—services that we as consumers rely upon constantly for our comfort, sustenance, communications, and more.

We've all been there. Users report that applications are slow, calls are dropping, or that "the internet is broken." Yet, a glance at the network dashboards shows a sea of green—latency looks acceptable, packet loss is minimal, and bandwidth seems fine. This common scenario highlights a fundamental challenge in network observability: the perceived disconnect between the technical measurements we gather and the actual experience of the people using our digital services.

The wait is finally over! We are thrilled to announce that DX NetOps 24.3.9 marks the official general availability (GA) of DX NetOps Topology, a key milestone in our network observability journey. After a successful early access program with many customer deployments, we are excited to bring this highly anticipated solution to the broader community. DX NetOps Topology is designed to provide you with the insights and operational efficiency needed to manage both traditional and software-defined networks.

Orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes and OpenShift help customers reduce costs by enabling on-demand, scalable compute resources. Customers can manually scale out and scale in their Kubernetes compute resources as needed. Autoscaling is the process of automatically adjusting compute resources to meet a system's performance requirements. As workloads grow, systems require additional resources to sustain performance and handle increasing demand.

For today’s enterprises, ensuring optimized network connectivity and robust network security represent key imperatives. Given that, it makes sense that there’s rapidly growing use of solutions like secure access service edge (SASE). In fact, the SASE market is expected to grow to $5.9 billion by 2028. SASE delivers converged network and security capabilities. SASE is a cloud-based offering that is primarily delivered on an as-a-service basis.

DX Unified Infrastructure Management (DX UIM) from Broadcom is a comprehensive solution for monitoring an organization’s entire IT infrastructure. The product provides IT administrators and operations teams with a centralized view of their infrastructure to ensure availability and performance of servers, network devices, storage systems, virtualization environments, applications, and cloud services.

Your network is the central nervous system of your business. Its performance, reliability, and security have a direct impact on your organization’s operations, revenue, and reputation. Yet, lurking within this critical infrastructure is a common source of disruption and risk: network configuration changes.