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We’re proud to share that NETSCOUT has been recognized for industry-leading excellence in network detection and response (NDR). This acknowledgment, from Quadrant Knowledge Solutions’ 2025 SPARK Matrix™ for NDR, highlights what our customers already know: NETSCOUT delivers unmatched visibility, precision, and forensic...

What is DPI in 5G? DPI in 5G is an intelligent, cloud-native traffic analysis engine. Communications service providers (CSPs) typically implement DPI engines in the User Plane Function (UPF), which is part of the 5G core (5GC) network responsible for user data forwarding. How Does DPI Work? DPI uses sophisticated...

Digital transformation sounds simple in theory; in practice it’s anything but. Even organizations with ambitious resilience goals struggle to keep pace with rapid innovation while juggling the complexities of cloud services, vendor dependencies, and legacy systems. This often creates barriers that cause IT teams to...

Research shows that networks are becoming progressively more autonomous in an effort to support efficiency and adaptability for advanced use cases. To continue the journey to full autonomous operations within the dynamic 5G ecosystem and beyond, networks need better data sources. High-fidelity curated data can provide...

Have you tried to gain visibility into your cloud environment? What do you use? How effective is it? Do you feel as if you have end-through-end, enterprisewide observability that covers your cloud environment as well as your on-premises data center, headquarters, and remote offices? Are there gaps in the observability...

In today’s digital landscape, encrypted traffic is the norm—not the exception. While encryption such as Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.3 protects user privacy and data integrity, it also presents a growing challenge for security teams: How do you defend against threats hidden inside encrypted traffic without...

If you feel as if you’re living the information technology version of the movie “Groundhog Day,” you’re probably not alone. This week’s disruption makes it three major internet outages in less than a month. This has tested major corporations that rely on hybrid/multicloud networking for their business success while...

In the rapidly evolving landscape of telecommunications, radio access networks (RANs) play a pivotal role in facilitating mobile connectivity. With the advent of 5G technology and the push toward open networks, optimizing RANs to ensure high-performance connectivity has become a complex yet crucial task. The Role of...

In today’s hyperconnected digital landscape, distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks have evolved into sophisticated, multivector threats capable of crippling even the most resilient infrastructures. While content delivery network (CDN)-based DDoS protection offers scalable mitigation for volumetric attacks, it’s...

While many of us are busy building playlists for seasonal travel and get-togethers, the people running our digital world are orchestrating something else. Their work revolves around uptime, with patches, baselines, and dashboards fine-tuned to keep network traffic and applications running seamlessly as the year winds...

The world’s voracious appetite for data is showing no signs of letting up. According to recent reports, the “volume of data created, captured, copied, and consumed worldwide is projected to rise to 181 zettabytes by 2025.” That’s a lot of data! The reasons for collecting this data are as varied as the volume of the...

Every organization depends on digital services that must stay available and secure. The margin for error is getting smaller. More clouds, more devices, and more threats mean greater risk to services and network performance. Traditional monitoring can’t always keep up, which is why detecting and preventing issues inside...

In today's digital-centric world, connectivity forms the backbone of both residential and business operations. Fixed wireless access (FWA) emerges as a pivotal technological solution, offering high-speed internet access through wireless networks. It stands out for its adaptability, providing internet services in...

Innovation is reshaping businesses from the inside out. Complexity is multiplying with every new platform, application, and data flow. System integrators (SIs) are becoming the difference between organizations that scale confidently and those that stall. With artificial intelligence (AI) enabling smaller companies to...

Artificial intelligence (AI) continues to get more intelligent, which holds the potential for reshaping how businesses operate. The next generation of innovation involves agentic AI. These are autonomous AI systems that can perceive their environment, reason, make decisions, and take actions to achieve goals, moving...

It has happened again. It was just October 20 that one IT disruption in a major cloud provider environment impacted the applications and websites of hundreds of enterprise businesses and government agencies around the world. Just a week later, on October 29, another public cloud provider suffered a major disruption...

Power plants for generation and transmission, substations for distribution, and sales and support offices are among the variety of facilities where electric power and utilities companies employ skilled personnel. Regardless of the actual location, a quality user experience is necessary for maintaining safe, continuous...

The advent of 5G technology marks a transformative era in telecommunications, promising unprecedented speeds, ultra-low latency, and enhanced connectivity. However, with these advancements come significant challenges, particularly in the realm of network monitoring. NETSCOUT has a variety of solutions to the most...

Last summer, a routine update at a cybersecurity firm triggered a global IT disruption, impacting customer endpoints and servers across countless enterprise companies on every continent. This week, another worldwide internet disruption affected systems, web sites, and applications of some of the world’s largest...

On October 15, 2025, a major network infrastructure provider disclosed a sophisticated cybersecurity incident in which a nation-state threat actor maintained long-term, unauthorized access to internal systems. During the intrusion, the attackers exfiltrated portions of the company’s flagship network and application...