Regular posts on all things StableNet® related from a sales, techie, or marketing perspective
How to Identify Better Ways to Manage Your Managed Service
This blog post gives you an insight into the challenges faced by Managed Service Providers in building a suitable technology & software set-up.
Netconf/YANG: The Future of Network Configuration
Enter Netconf/YANG, two technologies that have been steadily rising in popularity over the last few years for configuring and automating network devices in a machine-friendly way.
NIS2 and StableNet®: A Critical Building Block for Compliance
NIS2 is an EU-wide cybersecurity directive aimed at enhancing the security of critical infrastructure. Read to see how StableNet® can help achieve compliance with NIS2.
Artificial Intelligence in Network Management – Flagship Project “AI-NET” won the Celtic Next Innovation Award
AI and digital transformation are crucial in network management. This blog post explores the exciting research project AI-NET.
Managed Services for Network Management – StableNet® as a Service
Discover how MSPs can assist your IT with expert services in security, cloud management, and more to reduce costs and provide expertise.
Virtual Command Center (VCC) for Disaster Recovery
Infosim® and its project partners celebrate their victory of the TM Forum Catalyst Award. Read more about the Catalyst project in this interview!
Two-Factor Authentication in StableNet®
Cyber security is currently more important than ever. Let’s talk about why 2FA is important to protect sensitive data and comply with legal regulations.
StableNet® Innovation Lab – One Year of Open Innovation
This blog post reflects on the first year of the StableNet® Innovation Lab and gives an outlook on what to expect in the future.
The Importance of Increasing Modularization for StableNet® Development
This blog post emphasizes the importance of increasing modularization for holistic and integrative network management.
Customizable dashboards in network management for service providers and enterprise customers
This blog post covers the key aspects that should be considered when creating customizable network performance dashboards.
Network Management and Operations in the Age of Large Language Models
Since ChatGPT was introduced, generative AI has gained significant attention. Let’s discuss which potential it holds for network operations.
Business Intelligence – The Future of Business Development
Unlock the future of business with Business Intelligence. Gain insights, optimize operations, and stay ahead of the curve with StableNet® BI.
The StableNet® Annual Release Cycle – A collaborative effort by the entire team
In this blogpost we give you an insight into the StableNet® Annual Release cycle and all the processes that go on behind the scenes.
What it means to be a Solution Engineer (SE) at Infosim®
In an internal interview, one of our Solution Engineers sheds light on the importance of his role and discusses the opportunities and challenges of the African market.
Unlocking Network Performance Insights with TWAMP and StableNet®: A Comprehensive Guide
A comprehensive guide on TWAMP, exploring its significance, functionality, and how it helps maintain and enhance network performance.
Taking the next steps together – Acknowledging our partners
On the occasion of our 20th anniversary we would like to thank our partners for their loyalty and support over the last years.
6 steps to a successful network audit that saves you time and resources (with checklist)
6 crucial network audit steps to ensure compliance and enhance security. Also discover how to perform them with reduced resources and time.
Infosim® – 20 Years Full of Success
This year is a very special year. Infosim® celebrates its 20th anniversary! Discover how the journey started and how it could continue.
A Collaboration for Better Network Management: Infosim® and Cubro Partnership
An interview with Andrew Tiedeman, the CEO of Infosim® America to find out more about the newly formed partnership with Cubro and what makes StableNet® and Omnia’s joint solution so successful.
Streaming Telemetry – Is it replacing SNMP completely?
More and more vendors are announcing support for telemetry, and isolated forerunners are even going so far as to completely discontinue support for SNMP. Is it really the end for SNMP?
The StableNet® Portal – New Features and Functionalities
Find out more about the current development process of the “StableNet® Portal” and which new features and functions you can already expect.
Closed vs. Open Innovation – StableNet® Innovation Lab
„Most innovations fail. And companies that don’t innovate die.“ Discover how Infosim handles open innovation with the new StableNet Innovation Lab
Partner Highlight: Inetum
Inetum is our trusted partner and also develops software components for a comprehensible and easy to use software.
Quantum Computing – Threat or Opportunity for Network Security
Are you curious about quantum computing’s influence on our current network security? Find out how businesses can take advantage of this technology while minimizing risk.
Recruiting at Infosim® – An interview with our Human Resources Manager
An internal interview with our Human Resources Manager about the importance of an effective recruiting process design.
FNT Command, StableNet® and Splunk – The All-in-One Solution for effective data integration and utilization
An interview about how Controlware integrates FNT-Command, Splunk and StableNet® into a holistic solution for effective data integration and utilization.
Root Cause Analysis with StableNet®: Why it makes a difference in selecting your network management tool
Root Cause Analysis is a valuable StableNet® feature that helps users to do fault managment more efficient.
Part 1: Telemetry – A new StableNet® Feature supporting SNMP
With telemetry, a new feature for supporting SNMP is currently developed for StableNet®. There are a lot of challenges, but the advantages are undeniable.
The similarities and differences between SNMP and Telemetry
An in-depth analysis on the similarities and differences between SNMP and telemetry in automated network and service management.
How Software Defined Networking (SDN) Continues to Change Telco Network Management
Software Defined Networks have the possibility of helping to solve several problems, since they make the Telco network management more flexible and more efficient, avoiding prejudices in future developments. Specialists bet that this will be the most convenient solution for Data Centers and next generation networks.
“Managed Services” – A Continuing Trend in Network / IT Management
Discussing the “as a service” trend and introducing our response to this drift with an expansion of our Managed Service Portfolio.
Part 6c: Network Automation – Monitoring and Tagging
Welcome back to the last of a three-part series on how monitoring and tagging can be used in StableNet® for more automation possibilities.
5 Best Practices for Cloud Monitoring in Network Management
Cloud monitoring is the process carried out to control and supervise the correct functioning of any network or file hosted in the cloud infrastructure. To make such cloud monitoring run smoothly and seamlessly, companies often implement monitoring programs across their entire cloud infrastructure, one of which is StableNet.
Datanet Systems & Infosim® – Successful business in the Eastern European Market
Get to know our Partner Datanet Systems – The biggest Cisco Gold Partner in Romania.
Part 6b: Network Automation – Monitoring and Tagging
Welcome back to the second of a three-part series on how monitoring and tagging can be used in StableNet® for more automation possibilities.
Zoracom & Infosim® – How to succeed in the unique African market
An interview about how Infosim partner Zoracom found success in the african market in Cybersecurity, Cloud, Network and Service Management.
Quantum Communication – AIOps – 5G & 6G
Quick wrap up on what happened in the Infosim Research Department last year and what the topics are that will be looked at in 2022.
Frequentis & StableNet® – Advanced Network Management System
An interview about how Infosim partner Frequentis uses StableNet® as a core part of their Advanced Network Management Solution (ANMS)
Part 6a: Network Automation – Monitoring and Tagging
It’s autumn. As days become shorter and evenings longer, it is the perfect time to issue another series of blog posts. This is the first of a set of three posts that will look at – amongst numerous closely related things – StableNet® implementations for monitoring automation.
Consolidation vs. Integration in Network Management
Take a look at how our Director of Marketing describes consolidation and integration in Network Management. See where they overlap, how they differ and why the terms are important for StableNet®.
Stronger and more profitable partnerships in a tech-based industry
In his first blog posting our new Partner Communications Manager writes about Important vendor-related relationship factors and how we will achieve significant improvements for cooperations with our partners.
Part 3: Telcos Transition to Tomorrow: Where does the story go?
This is the third part of a three-part blog series that will be looking into the specific challenges and opportunities that Telcos are currently facing with managing their ever-evolving network infrastructures.
Part 5: Network Automation – Configuration Generation
Whilst the market considers “network configuration and change management” (NCCM) an equivalent to “network automation”, the StableNet® platform provides a much wider application framework which offers automations for discovery, inventory creation, and configuration change.
Part 2: Service Operations Blurring Classical Layer Structures of Today’s Telco Services
This is the second part of a three-part blog series that will be looking into the specific challenges and opportunities that Telcos are currently facing with managing their ever-evolving network infrastructures.
Part 4: Network Automation for Discovery & Inventory
Network Automation starts with discovery to build the inventory baseline as a foundation and everything else proceeds from there. Let’s have a look at some automated discovery use cases.
Integration & Automation – Translating Lessons Learned from the Telco Market into Enterprise
This is the first part of the “Outside Contributions” blog series that will be looking into the Telco market with our long term Partner KedronUK.
Part 1: Key Challenges for today’s Telco Network & Service Management – Closing service gaps between Telco and Enterprise management requirements
This is the first part of a three-part blog series that will be looking into the specific challenges and opportunities that Telcos are currently facing with managing their ever-evolving network infrastructures.
Part 3: Network Automation – Market Perspectives
Networks are never static. A common theory suggests an approach that consists of “plan, build, run” but the reality in operations is that the focus is more on configure, monitor and troubleshoot.
Successful rebranding in a tech based industry
Rebranding offers a great opportunity to strengthen the company’s presence and image in the eyes of the customers. The areas which are rebuilt can vary, and the same is true for the reasons to change the branding in the first place. For StableNet®, one reason was a change in our strategy.
Part 2: Platforms and Workflows that Automate Operations
Without any doubt, multi-faceted automation tasks cannot be uniformally covered with a “one size fits it all” solution. In other words, each firm must establish focused priorities and functional compromises in order to develop the foundation for a successful network automation solution.
Who is our competitor? The view from our CEO of N. American Operations
We face three primary types of competition, for various possible customers in the NMS arena. The customer types range from enterprises that need to secure the health of their network for production purposes to Telcos that require service assurance for the network services that they provide to their clients, and anything in-between.
Marketing at Infosim – An interview with our Director of Marketing
As it has been nearly a year since Dr. David Toumajian first joined Infosim® as the Director of Marketing, we wanted to ask him a few questions about his experience at the company and some of the key initiatives that the marketing department has been working on during that time.
Shaping the future of AI-based Network Management – Infosim is part of AI-NET-PROTECT
In March of 2021, Infosim® began working on a new joint research project called “Project AI-NET-PROTECT”. Together with leading AI research institutes, universities and technology companies from all across Europe, our company will be researching new possibilities for providing resilient and secure networks to critical infrastructures.
Part 1: A Network Automation Platform improves Operations to deliver Business Results
Our network automation blog series puts a spotlight on the underlying automation eco-system and its associated challenges. With ever increasing amounts of endpoints and growing technology complexity, the drive towards network automation has been around for a long time in the telecommunications industry.
The place of Infosim® within IoT
Learn more about how StableNet® fits into the overall structure of IoT and Secure Device Onboarding (SDO) in part one of our Internet of Things blog series.
How to analyze flow data with StableNet®
Flow data can be one of the best tools a network engineer can use to track down issues. Flow data can be used for a variety of troubleshooting tasks, including: Network performance, capacity planning, security audits and more. In this article, we will explore flow (NetFlow, IPFIX, SFlow…) and then see how to analyze that data with StableNet®.
What’s new in StableNet® 8.3?
With the release of StableNet 8.3 this summer, Infosim® has continued to improve and expand its award-winning unified network management platform. As with all new releases, these versions include some bug fixes and general improvements. In this blog post I am going to take you through the main new features of StableNet® in the 8.3.x LTS (Long Term Support) releases.
How to create your own tag tree
When StableNet® version 8.0 was released in the beginning of 2017, one of the biggest changes to the tool was the new tag feature. Tagging completely changed the way elements within StableNet® can be classified, organized, filtered, and generally operated on. In my mind, this was a giant leap forward for the product and huge benefit to our customers.
Firewall Configuration/ Network Configuration and Change Management (NCCM)
This blog looks at the need for an automated NCCM solution to address security concerns, and the main features that one should look for in an NCCM solution.
Configuration management involves identifying the configuration of a firewall system at given points in time, systematically controlling changes to the configuration, and maintaining the integrity and traceability of the configuration throughout the lifecycle.
The Zero-Touch Onboarding Solution
At Infosim®, we like to talk about how StableNet® can be a central part of a zero-touch automation solution. What we mean is that by using the advanced Discovery, NCCM, and Integration features native to StableNet®, an organization can go from initial turn-up to final accepted configuration in a completely hands-off way using only StableNet® and other integrated platforms to plan, configure, test, and manage IT devices.
An omni-channel experience with StableNet®
Next to making StableNet® even better, we are working towards an omni-channel experience for our Unified Network and Management Solution. For those who haven’t encountered this buzzword yet, it is simply to say that one can get the experience from every possible channel. Obviously, new channels are popping very fast these days. We have focused on integrating three main channels that have recently gained particular relevance.
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