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\ \ Introducing Kentik AI Advisor: The Future of Network Intelligence\ \ by Eric Hian-Cheong](/content/blog/ai-advisor/index.html) \ \ Beyond Observability: Why Network Intelligence Will Make Traditional Network Management Obsolete\ \ by Avi Freedman](/content/blog/network-intelligence/index.html) \ \ Kentik Brings Network Intelligence to ServiceNow\ \ by Jason McKerr](/content/blog/kentik-brings-network-intelligence-to-servicenow/index.html) \ \ Announcing the Cloud Latency Map\ \ by Doug Madory](/content/blog/announcing-the-cloud-latency-map/index.html) \ \ The Cloud Conundrum: Optimizing Without Compromise\ \ by Rosalind Whitley](/content/blog/the-cloud-network-conundrum-optimizing-without-compromise/index.html) \ \ Simplifying Multi-cloud Visibility\ \ by Phil Gervasi](/content/blog/simplifying-multi-cloud-visibility/index.html) \ \ RPKI ROV Deployment Reaches Major Milestone\ \ by Doug Madory, Job Snijders](/content/blog/rpki-rov-deployment-reaches-major-milestone/index.html) \ \ Unleashing the Power of Kentik Data Explorer for Cloud Engineers\ \ by Phil Gervasi](/content/blog/unleashing-the-power-of-kentik-data-explorer-for-cloud-engineers/index.html) \ \ The Benefits and Drawbacks of SNMP and Streaming Telemetry\ \ by Phil Gervasi](/content/blog/the-benefits-and-drawbacks-of-snmp-and-streaming-telemetry/index.html) \ \ Diving Deep into Submarine Cables: The Undersea Lifelines of Internet Connectivity\ \ by Phil Gervasi](/content/blog/diving-deep-into-submarine-cables-undersea-lifelines-of-internet-connectivity/index.html) \ \ A Brief History of the Internet’s Biggest BGP Incidents\ \ by Doug Madory](/content/blog/a-brief-history-of-the-internets-biggest-bgp-incidents/index.html) \ \ BGP Routing Tutorial Series: Part 1\ \ by Avi Freedman](/content/blog/bgp-routing-tutorial-series-part-1/index.html)
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\ \ Lauren Basile\ \ Principal Product Marketing Manager](/content/blog/author/lauren-basile/index.html) \ \ Avi Freedman\ \ Co-founder & CEO](/content/blog/author/avi/index.html) \ \ Eric Hian-Cheong\ \ Senior Product Marketing Manager](/content/blog/author/eric-hian-cheong/index.html) \ \ Jezzibell Gilmore\ \ General Manager, Service Provider](/content/blog/author/jezzibell-gilmore/index.html) \ \ Mike Ho\ \ VP of Emerging Technology](/content/blog/author/mike-ho/index.html) \ \ Aaron Kagawa\ \ Technical Product Manager](/content/blog/author/aaron-kagawa/index.html) \ \ David Klein\ \ CMO](/content/blog/author/david-klein/index.html) \ \ Mary LeBlanc\ \ People Operations](/content/blog/author/mary-leblanc/index.html) \ \ Doug Madory\ \ Director of Internet Analysis](/content/blog/author/doug-madory/index.html) \ \ Justin Ryburn\ \ Field CTO](/content/blog/author/jryburn/index.html) \ \ Steve Stover\ \ Vice President of Product Marketing](/content/blog/author/steve-stover/index.html) \ \ Greg Villain\ \ Director, Technical Product Management](/content/blog/author/greg-villain/index.html)
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7 Real Ways to Modernize NetOps with Kentik AI Advisor
March 04, 2026
Kentik’s AI Advisor acts as a virtual network engineer, helping teams of all skill levels troubleshoot, manage, and optimize their infrastructure with unprecedented speed and context. We explore seven practical NetOps use cases, from rapid incident triage and capacity planning to upcoming live-device command support, that demonstrate how using AI as a collaborative teammate dramatically reduces manual investigative work.
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Agentic NetOps: How to beat the cloud monsters at their own game
by Avi Freedman
February 06, 2026
The secret to hyperscaler success isn’t magic. Kentik Co-founder and CEO Avi Freedman explains how organizations can adopt the same operating principles and empower network teams to drive results that far exceeds their headcount.
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The Power of Giving: Kentik Cares 2025 Impact
by Mary LeBlanc
January 29, 2026
At Kentik, our commitment to our global community is as vital as the technology we build. In 2025, our Kentik Cares Giving Program hit a record-breaking milestone: our distributed team raised close to $30,000 for global and local charities, a massive 74% increase over our 2024 total! Read about the impact we’re making together and how last year’s record-breaking total has become our new starting line for 2026.
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From Ukraine to the Cloud: Stories of IPv4 Migration
by Doug Madory
January 28, 2026
This post expands on our analysis from last year that revealed that as much as 20% of IPv4 space has migrated out of Ukraine in the years following the Russian invasion in February 2022. This update reveals that AT&T (a popular destination for Ukrainian IPs) has since implemented a policy ridding itself of customers using AS7018 to originate their routes, often to support residential proxies.
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AI Is Bigger Than LLMs: Why Network Teams Need to Think Beyond Chatbots and Agents
by Phil Gervasi
January 23, 2026
AI in network operations is more than chatbots and agents. LLMs make AI easier to use, but the real value comes from the underlying system of telemetry, data pipelines, analytics, ML models, domain knowledge, and workflows that help engineers reason, predict, and act. When designed thoughtfully, AI doesn’t replace engineers. Instead, it augments their expertise and reduces cognitive load across complex network operations.
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From Stealth Blackout to Whitelisting: Inside the Iranian Shutdown
by Doug Madory
January 21, 2026
Iran is in the midst of one of the world’s most severe communications blackouts. This post uses Kentik data to detail how this historic event unfolded, where this event lies in the context of previous Iranian shutdowns, and finally discusses what might be in store next for Iran.
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Context is King: Why Network AI Needs Domain Knowledge to Work
by Phil Gervasi
January 08, 2026
Generic AI fails in network operations because it lacks the “institutional knowledge” of your specific environment and business priorities. Learn how Kentik’s Custom Network Context encodes your unique operational reality into AI Advisor, turning a generic chatbot into a context-aware teammate.
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A Year in Internet Analysis: 2025
by Doug Madory
December 18, 2025
This year-end wrap-up covers topics from BGP security (including ASPA and excessive AS-SETs) and the geopolitical (Ukraine’s IPv4 exodus, the Iran internet shutdown, and Red Sea cable cuts) to the year’s most significant outages (TikTok, the Spain/Portugal blackout, and cloud failures at AWS, Azure, and Cloudflare). Plus, we explore Starlink’s new Community Gateways, and revisit the evolving landscape of AS ranking and OTT service tracking.
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AI Advisor: Automating Network Troubleshooting with AI Runbooks
by Phil Gervasi
December 11, 2025
Kentik AI Runbooks are machine-readable instructions that codify tribal knowledge into specific diagnostic workflows. By guiding AI Advisor’s reasoning and tool selection, Runbooks turn alerts into actionable, automated investigations, dramatically accelerating MTTR.
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Anatomy of an OTT Traffic Surge: Thursday Night Football on Amazon Prime Video
by Doug Madory
November 25, 2025
In this edition of Anatomy of an OTT Traffic Surge, we look at Thursday Night Football on Amazon Prime Video. Based on traffic stats, TNF is the most watched program on the streaming service. Using Kentik’s OTT capabilities, we’ll see how this program gets delivered and how that has changed over 11 weeks of the NFL season.
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