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AI Diagnostics in Kentik NMS (Network Monitoring System)

Network problems are easy to spot. Proving root cause is the hard part — and it’s where most of MTTR gets burned. Kentik’s new AI diagnostics in the Network Monitoring System (NMS) close the gap between detection and diagnosis by bringing three capabilities directly into Kentik AI Advisor.

Accelerating MTTR with Faster Root Cause Diagnosis: AI Advisor Now Supports On-Demand Connectivity, Config Context, and Device Diagnostics

Knowing something is broken is easy. Figuring out why is hard. Introducing three new, native AI diagnostic capabilities in the Kentik Network Intelligence Platform to accelerate root cause analysis and keep your network running better.

How Criteo handles 23M requests per second (RPS) with HAProxy Runtime API automation

Criteo handles 23 million requests per second (RPS) while maintaining peak performance and minimizing downtime. For most organizations, handling that level of traffic is just a theoretical stress test — a what-if scenario should their infrastructure ever be overwhelmed by an unexpected wave of requests. But for Criteo, 23 million RPS is just another Tuesday.

What Is Network Operations Center (NOC)

Quick Answer A Network Operations Center (NOC) — pronounced “knock” — is a centralized physical or virtual facility where IT professionals monitor, manage, and maintain an organization’s network infrastructure on a 24/7/365 basis. The NOC serves as the nerve center for detecting incidents, coordinating responses, and ensuring maximum network availability and performance.

Nzo product demo

This on‑demand product demo shows how N‑zo supports MSPs looking to simplify operations and scale more efficiently. Watch to see how N‑zo brings key workflows together, reduces operational friction, and helps teams gain better insight into their business. The demo highlights practical scenarios designed to support growth, consistency, and operational clarity without added complexity. Ideal for MSP leaders and operations teams who want a clearer, more streamlined way to manage their business.

Meet Auvik AI: Bringing Practical Intelligence to IT Operations

Across the IT industry, AI is being positioned as the next evolution of operations. But for many IT teams, AI still feels disconnected from the tools they rely on every day. Dashboards get smarter. Reports get faster. But workflows stay the same. Stuck in vendor silos or a CLI, IT teams have been looking for ways to bolt AI into workflows, but what often comes out is a Frankenstein-like web of APIs and MCP hosts. AI is meant to make life easier for IT teams – not make it more difficult.

How Auvik AI Solves the Biggest Challenges in IT Operations

Modern IT operations aren’t short on tools. Monitoring tools. Ticketing systems. Alerting platforms. Documentation repositories. Dashboards. Scripts. Runbooks. And yet, when something breaks, the workflow still looks strangely familiar: Somewhere along the way you’re asking yourself: Is the problem even here? This is the everyday friction of IT operations. Not the big outages. Its the constant small mysteries that take far longer to solve than they should.

Optical Freedom as a Design Principle: How Ribbon Enables Choice and Supply Chain Resiliency

Pandemic-era shortages are still fresh in many minds. As consumers, we remember empty shelves and long lines driven by panic buying and stockpiling. In telecom, the story played out differently but with the same root cause: factory shutdowns interrupted chip fabrication just as demand for networking and optical equipment surged.