Network intelligence for telcos, hyperscalers, ISPs, and data centers
Stand out with superior service quality
- Proactively manage performance and digital experience across your services with real-time traffic analytics, device metrics, and synthetic testing.
- Troubleshoot rapidly and instantly pinpoint root causes with AI that understands your network in full context.
- Confidently plan and optimize capacity, routing, and content delivery, using deep end-to-end visibility into traffic flows, CDNs, and OTT services.
Reduce network costs
- Identify top peering candidates, optimize interconnection strategy, and cut transit costs while improving user experience.
- Align network planning and routing decisions with backbone and edge network cost intelligence to improve margins and balance spending.
- Simplify your stack and multiply team impact with centralized network intelligence.
Boost operational efficiencies (and customer satisfaction)
- Instantly answer complex network questions — from root cause to route optimization — with AI-assisted insights.
- Address network skill shortages with AI to augment teams and improve productivity.
- Improve ROI by reducing time-to-insight on the network’s most complex, costly challenges.
- Fuel business growth with infrastructure insights that scale beyond technical teams.
Deliver more value, capture more revenue
- Launch new analytics, security, and monitoring offerings to grow ARPU and differentiate your portfolio.
- Uncover upsell and cross-sell opportunities hidden in traffic patterns, usage trends, and customer behavior.
- Empower sales teams with market intelligence and deep network insights to position value, defend pricing, and win deals.
Stop threats before they impact service
- Safeguard your network against threats with precise, real-time DDoS detection and mitigation.
- Instantly detect routing anomalies and policy violations to protect uptime, reputation, and revenue.
- Retain and search full-fidelity flow data to trace threats, investigate incidents, and validate security events.
Battle-tested by the best
Trusted by the world’s largest network operators and digital infrastructure providers.
“With Kentik, we can detect issues, performance degradation, and bandwidth requirements before they become problems. Kentik helps us guarantee the best digital experience for our customers.”
FAQs about Backbone, Carrier, and ISP Network Operations
What’s the best approach to monitor large backbone networks?
For large backbone networks, the best approach is a big-data-driven, SaaS-hosted flow analytics platform. Kentik’s Network Intelligence Platform ingests NetFlow, sFlow, IPFIX, J-Flow and BGP at carrier scale, stores unsummarized data in the Kentik Data Engine, and lets operators run ad-hoc queries across billions of records in seconds. That gives ISPs and carriers real-time visibility into traffic patterns, capacity, performance, and security issues across their entire backbone.
What tools provide multi-tenant analytics for service providers?
Multi-tenant analytics platforms let providers ingest network telemetry once and then securely expose per-customer (tenant) views, dashboards, and reports with strong access controls and optional white-label branding. Kentik supports this with Kentik for Service Providers and My Kentik Portal (MKP), which enables true multi-tenant network analytics with curated tenant dashboards and views without duplicating data, so providers can deliver customer-facing analytics as a value-added service. Kentik’s My Kentik Portal gives service providers true multi-tenant network analytics. You ingest all customer traffic into the Kentik platform once, then expose curated, per-tenant dashboards and views to each customer — without duplicating the data. The SaaS collectors (for sFlow, J-Flow, NetFlow) plus the My Kentik framework provide scalable, secure, multi-tenant analytics that providers can brand and package as their own value-added service.
How do ISPs optimize peering and transit to reduce latency and cost?
ISPs use Kentik to optimize peering and transit by combining flow data, BGP/AS-path info, and cost models in a single Peering & Interconnection workflow. Kentik’s Optimize Peering and Transit solution analyzes traffic ratios, latency, and paths by provider, then uses PeeringDB-aware analytics to suggest where to peer, which IXes or facilities to use, and how to rebalance traffic. The result is reduced latency for end-users and lower IP-transit bills, backed by hard traffic and cost data instead of guesswork.