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The telecom sector is experiencing a transformative period, with fixed wireless access (FWA) emerging as a significant growth area amid various challenges. As telecom operators embrace FWA, they face new complexities and risks, particularly concerning the protection of the mobile network core. This blog post delves...

Imagine trying to catch bad actors in a crowded city. They could blend in with the crowd, hide in the shadows, or even disguise themselves. To find them, you’d need eyes everywhere—on every street, in every building, watching every interaction. In the world of cybersecurity, catching a bad actor—be it a hacker, a...

When it comes to the evolution of the modern network environment, all we can say is—we’ve come a long way, baby! Over the years, we’ve progressed from being Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)-enabled, operating private data centers that invariably included loads of applications, to today’s virtualized private data...

Is AIOps the future of IT management, or just a buzzword for digital transformation enthusiasts? According to Carlos Casanova, principal analyst at Forrester, artificial intelligence for operations (AIOps), will revolutionize traditional IT approaches. While each company’s path to AIOps is unique, they all have one...

Unified-communications-as-a-service (UCaaS) technology is ingrained in business operations at enterprises around the world in every industry. Whether Zoom is being used for telemedicine appointments between patients and providers in healthcare or Microsoft Teams is being used internally at a leading financial services...

Businesses are rapidly adopting digital transformations such as cloud migrations, software as a service (SaaS), and unified communications as a service (UCaaS) to gain a competitive edge. These advancements enable seamless communication and agility but also introduce complexity to network environments. This complexity...

5G standalone (SA) deployments are on the rise. According to a recent report by Market.us Media, growth in the global 5G SA network market is estimated to reach a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 51.6 percent by 2033. With the massive increase in 5G SA investments, communications service providers (CSPs) will face...

If the recent nationwide CrowdStrike outage has taught us anything, it’s that enterprises must be prepared for anything and everything. This only goes to reinforce the importance of observability, which is crucial for IT teams who need to respond rapidly to problems within mission-critical network and application...

Before diving into how long a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack lasts, it’s necessary to uncover how a DDoS attack works. DDoS attacks aim to overwhelm systems by sending illegitimate traffic to applications, websites, servers, or other network environments. The end goal is to bring the service offline...

I recently sat down with Rick Fulwiler, Senior Director of Product Management – AIOps at NETSCOUT, for an in-depth and insightful discussion on the foundational role that good data has in ensuring that service provider AIOps delivers on its promise. You can watch the entire discussion here, but the following are some...

In the digital age, where connectivity and data are paramount, cybersecurity threats such as ransomware loom large, posing significant risks to organizations worldwide. Ransomware attacks have evolved into sophisticated campaigns that can cripple businesses, demanding ransom payments in exchange for decrypting or not...

Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks are a common tactic among hackers. They disrupt the availability of networks, applications, websites, and more to interrupt the functions of enterprises, service providers, and governments. DDoS attacks are also used as a diversion by bringing down one area of a network or...

“Out of sight, out of mind” might be a charming notion when it comes to dealing with household chores, but when IT professionals are attempting to ensure unified-communications-as-a-service (UCaaS) tools at remote sites are operating flawlessly, lack of observability can flat-out ruin your day. As businesses...

Research shows that the cellular Internet of Things (IoT) market is in recovery, with a growth of 7 percent year over year in the first quarter of 2024. 5G provides connectivity for emerging IoT devices and allows for advanced use cases in support of massive, critical, and broadband IoT. Current 4G LTE cellular...

The 2024 Summer Games is among the largest events in the world, with everyone from home viewers to businesses, industries, and entire nations having interest and involvement. Each audience segment will depend on connectivity throughout the games. With a stage that large, bad actors with anything from a personal grudge...

Cyberthreats are evolving every day to become increasingly sophisticated and complex. Keeping up with them is a difficult but necessary task that you cannot afford to undertake alone. That is where choosing the right cybersecurity solution comes into play. There are several factors to consider when selecting the...

At a recent NetworkX webinar, Heavy Reading and NETSCOUT took a closer look at how telecommunications operators are rethinking artificial intelligence for operations (AIOps) to address 5G network challenges. This blog, and the series that follows, delves into how next-gen AI is being used to improve application and...

Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks are a major risk for enterprise virtual private network (VPN) concentrators. Protecting these servers is paramount for business operations and continuity. Without a secure VPN, remote workers lose access to enterprise network resources, applications, and data, impacting...

It’s hard enough to build a world-class customer service organization, but when you add in the demand to ensure top performance of unified-communications-and-collaboration-as-a-service (UCaaS) platforms on which today’s contact centers often rely, the job of IT becomes gargantuan. In NETSCOUT’s latest UCaaS survey, 99...

Recently some network operators have raised questions about the use of flow data to detect distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, with the main concern being a perception that NetFlow export latency means an attack will not be detected quickly enough. Additionally, sometimes operators think that packet-based...