Kentik Blog
Starlink, the revolutionary low-earth-orbit satellite-based internet service, has quickly become one of the most transformative technologies in the world of internet communications. Using over three years of GeoIP data, we analyze the growth of Starlink as it expanded from 41 to 157 countries. This evolution included the emergence of “Community Gateways” and notable GeoIP entries for locations like Mars, Antarctica, SpaceX launch sites, and politically sensitive areas such as the Palestinian Territories, Kosovo, Venezuela, Myanmar, and Sudan.
Gavin joined Kentik’s People Ops team less than a year ago, so when April brought his first team offsite and his first HR conference in San Diego, it was a lot of firsts at once. He writes about meeting his colleagues face to face for the first time, what he took away from HRA 26, and his new appreciation for tapirs.
OTT data from early 2026 shows streaming hierarchies holding steady while AI platforms reshuffled rapidly. Claude has substantially increased traffic since January, overtaking Gemini, and is on pace to challenge ChatGPT by fall. Doug Madory digs into the data in this new analysis.
The infrastructure industry spent two decades chasing a single pane of glass. The future looks different: domain-expert AI platforms that reason deeply within their own data, connected through tool chaining when problems cross boundaries.
Enterprises are pouring billions into GPUs and AI compute, but most are overlooking the infrastructure that connects it all. Justin Ryburn, field CTO at Kentik, makes the case that the network is the most underestimated variable in whether AI initiatives succeed or fail.
Knowing something is broken is easy. Figuring out why is hard. Introducing three new, native AI diagnostic capabilities in the Kentik Network Intelligence Platform to accelerate root cause analysis and keep your network running better.
Ever wonder what’s just off-camera? Dive into the home offices of the Kentik team to see how our $500 setup budget is helping build their ultimate productive oasis.
AI has quickly become part of the language of network observability. Many vendors across the observability landscape can describe, summarize, correlate, or explain some data or situation, leveraging basic LLM capabilities. At a distance, many of these offerings sound similar. They promise faster insight, efficient operations, and a more intelligent path through rising complexity. But the industry has reached a point where surface-level similarity is creating noise, not value. As agentic systems become more common, the industry needs a better definition of a quality solution to cut through the noise.
Internet analyst Doug Madory examines Iran’s ongoing internet blackout, now one of the largest government-directed communication shutdowns in history, and shows how limited connectivity is being selectively restored for a privileged few.