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Join Kentik for a talk with one of our customers, Flexential, as we discuss how to consolidate tools to reduce costs, enhance security, improve the ability to troubleshoot problems, and give customers the best internet experience possible. What you’ll learn.

Kentik's Doug Madory and Grant Kirkwood of Unitas Global discuss events affecting global connectivity, focus on the role of BGP, review market share data, and show how Unitas transparently keeps customers informed of the status of their network.

In this short explainer and demo, Kentik's Phil Gervasi shows how Kentik is moving up the stack to monitor application activity on the network. Phil explains the differences between proactive and passive network monitoring and demonstrates three new synthetic tests that relate to app performance monitoring. Kentik's suite of application-focused synthetic tests give you proactive visibility into application activity on your network. Using the HTTP test, Page Load test, and Synthetic Transaction Monitoring, you can monitor a user's digital experience and troubleshoot problems as they happen.

Phil Gervasi, Kentik's Head of Technical Evangelism stops by Network AF today to speak with host Avi Freedman about all things network observability and to recap their experiences at Cisco Live. Phil was a network engineer for 15 years before switching to marketing and finding his way into technical evangelism. In this conversation the two focus on building a foundation for data mining and collecting information that could better inform network intelligence and insights from observability platforms like Kentik.

Kentik customers describe the benefits they get from the Kentik Network Observability platform. Learn why network pros at Cogent, CTS Telecom, GoDaddy, IBM, Linode, Pavlov Media, ServerCentral and ViaSat use Kentik to run their networks.

What is synthetic transaction monitoring and how is it beneficial? Phil Gervasi and Sunil Kodiyan talk STM, how it works, what problems you can solve with it, and how it fits into an overall digital experience monitoring strategy. Learn how synthetic transaction monitoring can be used to test and track application performance from an end-user perspective, in this short talk and technical demonstration.

Now that your peering connections are built, what can you do to optimize them? We’ll explore how Kentik can help you organize traffic patterns to get the most out of your network. Join host Nina Bargisen for this webinar replay to learn.

Network AF welcomes Doug Madory back to the podcast to discuss current events, including Russia invading Ukraine, and recent internet-related issues in Syria and Egypt. Doug is Kentik's Director of Internet Analysis, and uses BGP and traffic data to write about happenings with networks on a worldwide scale. Together with Kentik CEO and show host Avi Freedman, the two dive into the real-world implication of geopolitical events on the state of networking.

Chairman and Co-Founder of Scorbit, Jay Adelson, sits down with Network AF host Avi Freedman to talk about his history as a serial entrepreneur. Jay founded Equinix, Revision3, Opsmatic, and was the CEO of Digg. Throughout the conversation Jay and Avi touch on problems founders encounter, and discuss their mutual joy for gaming.Highlights of the conversation include.

Kentik's Phil Gervasi talks with Product Manager Sunil Kodiyan to discuss what synthetic testing is and how it can be used to troubleshoot issues with web applications. Sunil demonstrates the use of the Kentik Synthetics Page Load test, which provides a granular breakdown of how every component on the page is loading. Using that information, web app developers can easily track down exactly what’s impacting a site’s performance—whether it’s a site hosted on-premises, in the cloud, or by a SaaS provider.