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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.
Announcing HAProxy Enterprise 3.3 and HAProxy ALOHA 18.0
We're excited to announce the release of HAProxy Enterprise 3.3, which brings significant advancements to the HAProxy Enterprise WAF and bot management capabilities.
Demo - Selector Platform NOC Operator Workflow
See how Selector transforms NOC operations in real time. This demo walks through a typical workflow - from ingesting massive volumes of network and system data to automatically detecting anomalies, correlating events, and pinpointing true root cause. Instead of chasing alerts across siloed tools, Selector delivers a single, intelligent view - reducing noise, highlighting impact, and accelerating resolution.
What Every IT Operations Team Should Know About Managing IPv4 in 2026
IPv4 was supposed to be a temporary problem. Address exhaustion was meant to push the entire internet toward IPv6 within a decade, and operations teams could simply manage the transition and move on. That hasn't happened. Most enterprise networks still run dual-stack configurations, customer-facing services still depend heavily on IPv4, and the secondary market for addresses has become a permanent fixture of modern infrastructure planning.
What are operational maturity levels (OMLs) for MSPs?
Service Leadership, a leading company that works to measure IT and managed service provider (MSP) performance, defines the five levels of operational maturity for solution providers. Often referred to simply as operational maturity levels (OMLs), OMLs help managed service providers (MSPs) measure how consistently, intentionally, and effectively they run their businesses.
Vaia: The Future of ValueOps with AI
ValueOps Vaia: AI Driven Planning and Execution AI is moving fast, but without control, it creates chaos. Discover how Vaia helps you manage AI economics, reduce waste, and deliver measurable business value across strategy, planning, and execution.
That's Not a Job for an LLM: The Right Way to Apply AI to Network Operations
LLMs have sucked all the oxygen out of the AI conversation — but AI is much more than just LLMs, and network engineers have been using AI techniques (machine learning, statistics, fuzzy logic, expert systems, neural networks) for decades. So what should LLMs be doing in network operations, what shouldn't they be doing, and how do agentic AI architectures fit in?
Stop Guessing: Align Strategy to Outcomes with Strategic Portfolio Management
Clarity Strategic Portfolio Management 70% of digital investments fail due to poor alignment. See how Clarity by Broadcom connects strategy to execution, helping leaders prioritize, optimize resources, and deliver ROI. Strategic Portfolio Management, SPM, ValueOps, Business Outcomes, AI, Planning, Portfolio Management.
Eliminate Toolchain Silos. Orchestrate Real-Time Results.
ConnectALL Intelligent Toolchain Automation Stop managing silos. ConnectALL automates your toolchain, synchronizes data in real time, and ensures every workflow is aligned, governed, and optimized for business value. Strategic Portfolio Management, SPM, ValueOps, Business Outcomes, AI, Planning, Portfolio Management.