Category: Events

RIPE 86

Skyline of Rotterdam at dusk with modern buildings and a bridge, promoting RIPE 86 event from May 22-26.

It’s one of our highlights of the yearly conference calendar: It’s RIPE time! Next week, a whole bunch of us will hit Rotterdam for RIPE 86 and we can’t wait to mingle and learn about the latest issues affecting the RIPE community. BENOCS is not only Silver Sponsor of the event (come and say hi at our booth on Wednesday!), but on Wednesday evening, May 24, we will also celebrate our 10th anniversary party! Drop us a line via our contact formular if you’d like to join us and toast to the next 10 years.

International Telecoms Weeks

Ferris wheel illuminated in green at dusk, reflecting in water, with event details for ITW 2023 and Benocs logo.

From May 14-17, BENOCS CEO Stephan Schroeder and our business development colleague Hari Jayaraman will be in the US of A to attend ITW 2023. They are looking forward to seeing customers and partners, as well as meeting new connections in the telco community.

NDSI ’23

Twilight photo of buidlings and highrises in Boston, with a river and boats in the foreground. The text at the top-right reads: "NSDI '23, Boston, Apr 17-19. See you there!" At the bottom left is the white BENOCS logo.

BENOCS CTO Ingmar Poese will take a trip across the pond to Boston to participate in NDSI ’23, the 20th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation. During the technical sessions on Wednesday, April 19, a research paper Ingmar co-authored with Tobias Bühler, Romain Jacob, and Laurent Vanbever, all from ETH Zürich, entitled “Enhancing Global Network Monitoring with Magnifier”, will be presented. In the paper the authors propose an alternative to traffic sampling to monitor global networks: “magnifying” the sampling coverage by complementing it with mirroring.

Take a look at the program and the paper abstract here: https://lnkd.in/eZf995VA

11th SIG-NGN Meeting

A photo of the city of Prague: the river, bridges and the old buildings. The text at the top right reads: "LHCOPN-LHCONE meeting #50, 11th SIG-NGN Meeting, Pragues, April 18-20. See you there!" At the bottom right is the white BENOCS logo.

Next week our senior network engineer Danny A. Lachos Perez, PhD is off to Prague to attend both the LHCOPN-LHCONE meeting #50 hosted by the Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Physics (April 18-19) and the 11th SIG-NGN Meeting (April 20), co-hosted by both the academy and GÉANT.

Anomaly detection done right

Screenshot of an Anodot anomaly alert and next to it a screenshot of the corresponding incident in BENOCS Flow Analytics

Network visibility is our specialty: We can show you things about your internet traffic that you never knew. By utilizing various internet protocols such as IGP, BGP, SNMP, NetFlow and DNS, BENOCS Flow Analytics already helps you and your company – among other things – improve peering negotiations, prospect new customers, improve capacity planning and, of course, improve customer service.

You’ll forgive me the 1980’s infomercial reference, but here it comes:

But wait, there’s more!

Recently we teamed up with AI champs Anodot to give our customers even more insights into their network traffic.

You might be familiar with the following scenario: You sign up for notifications to alert you of important incidents affecting your network.  You set manual thresholds, outside of which the alarm bells start ringing: Here! Something important needs your immediate attention!

So, you quickly check the situation. False alarm.

Soon after, the next alert lands in your inbox: This time it’s worked. Thank goodness for alerts!

Then another alert comes in. And another. More false alarms.

Suddenly you are inundated with alerts, only a small proportion of which are useful. As a result, you generally don’t even bother much with them, deleting them with little more than a brief scan.

Problem solved

Anodot uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to learn normal traffic patterns, detect and correlate anomalies, and create real-time alerts based on deviations from normal network traffic. This approach eliminates the problem of alert “noise”, that is, being spammed by alerts that shouldn’t be alerts in the first place.

Thanks to the integration of Anodot’s autonomous monitoring into BENOCS, one click in your email alert will send you straight to the relevant event in Flow Analytics, where you can study the issue in your network and remediate failures before they impact revenues.

Download the white paper to dive deeper into the combined Anodot and BENOCS anomaly detection solution and get in touch with us if you’d like to know more.