Kentik
Core2Africa is proud to partner with Kentik, a global leader in network observability solutions, to bring unmatched visibility and control to service providers, mobile operators, and telcos across Africa and the Indian Ocean Islands. With a deep understanding of regional markets and a commitment to delivering tailored solutions, Core2Africa integrates Kentik‘s advanced tools to help clients optimise network performance, enhance security, and manage growing complexities with confidence. Together, we provide innovative solutions that empower our customers to stay ahead in an ever-evolving digital landscape.
<click IMAGE for Kentik website>
Core2Africa Partner Status
Core2Africa is honoured to be recognised as a Premier Partner for Kentik, reflecting our commitment to delivering exceptional value and expertise in network observability solutions. This prestigious status underscores our proven ability to integrate Kentik’s cutting-edge tools with the unique needs of service providers, mobile operators, and telcos across Africa and the Indian Ocean Islands. As a Premier Partner, Core2Africa offers unparalleled access to Kentik’s innovations, supported by our deep technical knowledge and regional presence, ensuring our clients receive world-class solutions and services tailored to their evolving network demands.
Core2Africa Value Proposition
Core2Africa is a trusted integrator serving service providers, mobile operators, and telcos across Africa and the Indian Ocean Islands, delivering cutting-edge solutions to enhance network performance and reliability. As a partner for Kentik, Core2Africa empowers customers with industry-leading network observability tools, enabling unparalleled visibility, optimisation, and security across complex networks. By combining Kentik‘s powerful solutions with Core2Africa‘s deep market knowledge, technical expertise, and regional presence, we help clients achieve proactive network management, cost efficiency, and superior user experiences. Together, we provide the tools and support needed to navigate the evolving demands of modern network infrastructures.
S-N-A-A-P Matrix
In line with the challenges faced by service providers, mobile operators, and telcos, Core2Africa provides solutions with the value proposition to best address them, which include the following five S-N-A-A-P elements:
S – Subscriber N – Networks A – Analytics A – Automation P – Protection
Kentik maps onto Core2Africa‘s S-N-A-A-P model, addressing critical challenges faced by service providers, mobile operators, and telcos. In the Subscriber element, Kentik‘s powerful network observability tools provide real-time insights into subscriber behavior and network performance, enabling operators to deliver superior experiences. Under Analytics, Kentik‘s advanced data analysis capabilities empower stakeholders to make data-driven decisions, optimise network resources, and anticipate future demands. For Protection, the Kentik DDoS detection tool enhances network security with proactive monitoring and anomaly detection, safeguarding both the network and its users. By aligning with these S-N-A-A-P pillars, Kentik strengthens Core2Africa’s ability to deliver comprehensive, innovative solutions to its clients.
<click IMAGE to enlarge>
Core2Africa focus on Kentik Products and Solutions
Core2Africa focuses on all of Kentiks products and solutions, including:
Hybrid Cloud Observability
Empower teams to answer any question about cloud traffic, connectivity, or performance.
- Answer any question about the networks you own, and the networks you don’t.
- Understand traffic, connectivity, and performance from data center to cloud to container.
- Ensure successful cloud migrations, troubleshoot efficiently, and optimise customer experiences.
- Visualise infrastructure from data center to AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, OCI, IBM Cloud, and Kubernetes environments in an interactive, context-rich map.
- Instantly see cloud resource topology and interconnects to data center environments with an automated source of truth.
Network Monitoring (NMS)
- Eliminate monitoring overhead with a blazing-fast, highly scalable SaaS NMS.
- Unify network telemetry from all your gear — SNMP, streaming, and custom metrics.
- Rapidly troubleshoot with AI-assistance that anyone on the team can use.
- Rapidly resolve outages with the answer to every network question at your fingertips.
- Make hybrid cloud networks faster, lower-cost, and more secure with insights across environments.
- Use automated peering and cost analysis to minimise hops and boost efficiency.
DDoS Detection
From botnets to threat-feeds, detect, remediate, and prevent DDoS attacks.
- Quickly detect threats using AI-driven insights for different attack profiles.
- Identify malicious botnet traffic or communication with embargoed countries.
- Integrate and enrich data with threat intelligence feeds.
- Built for complex networks.
Network AI
Troubleshoot complex networks with Kentik AI. Now everyone on your team can be a network expert.
- Ask, reframe, and branch off from saved questions and answers for fast iterative analysis.
- Chain and refer back to questions without re-work as you dig deeper towards the root of the problem.
- Track and build native network expertise in your unique environment by recording the questions that drive resolution.
Platform
Solutions
- Reduce Cloud Spend
- Migrate To and From Any Cloud
- Improve Cloud Performance
- Optimise Enterprise WAN
- Network Performance Monitoring
- Deliver Exceptional Digital Experiences
- Detect and Mitigate DDoS
- Harden Zero-Trust Cloud Network Policy
- Investigate Security Incidents
- Visualise All Cloud and Network Traffic
- Troubleshoot Any Network
- Understand Internet Performance
- Consolidate Legacy Tools
- Optimise Peering and Transit
- Plan Network Capacity
Technology
Kentik Product & Solution Blogs
Kentik Journeys is an AI-powered user experience that helps you investigate your network. It combines knowledge about your network with deep GenAI integration to help you answer network questions and solve problems faster than ever. Since launch, we’ve been innovating on Journeys’ capabilities and skills with customer feedback. Here’s a peek at what’s new.
Balancing cost efficiency and high performance in cloud networks is a constant challenge, especially when misconfigurations or inefficient routing lead to inflated costs or degraded performance. Learn how Kentik Journeys simplifies traffic analysis, helping cloud engineers identify inefficiencies like unnecessary Transit Gateway routing.
Click HERE to read more Kentik Blogs
Kentik White Papers
Service providers face growing challenges, including costly infrastructure upgrades, cloud shifts, pricing pressures, and demands for innovation, performance, and availability. They must balance supporting video-driven growth, reducing latency, and offering enhanced SLAs, all while combating customer churn. Success requires comprehensive visibility into network and service availability from both provider and business perspectives.
Neutralise DDoS attacks and detect malicious traffic with Kentik Protect, a SaaS solution offering advanced defense without costly infrastructure. With automated mitigation and actionable analytics, Kentik evolves with modern cyber threats, providing intelligent, rapid response to sophisticated attacks while ensuring minimal user impact. Customers trust Kentik for effective, automated DDoS defense.
This handbook is ideal for peering managers, interconnection professionals, or anyone eager to optimise edge traffic or understand the internet’s workings. It explores interconnection costs, peering opportunities, and transit provider selection, using Kentik’s platform to illustrate best practices. Comprehensive and practical, it’s a must-read for edge strategy optimisation.
Ultimate Guide to BGP Routing
BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) routing is a cornerstone of internet infrastructure, enabling efficient, reliable data transfer across autonomous systems (AS). It involves advertising network reachability, optimising data paths, and connecting ASes via peering and border routers. Critical to internet efficiency and integrity, BGP ensures seamless data packet delivery across global networks.
Kentik delivers comprehensive solutions to help service providers meet subscriber expectations and maintain a competitive edge. From synthetic monitoring and ML-powered insights to advanced DDoS defense and network troubleshooting, Kentik optimises network performance, automates capacity planning, and provides actionable analytics. Its tools enable efficient traffic engineering, cost management, and topology visualisation across hybrid infrastructures.
Kentik’s Hybrid Cloud Monitoring closes visibility gaps in hybrid, multi-cloud environments. With unified visualisation across owned and external infrastructures, it enables detailed analysis of VPC flows, subnets, and east-west traffic. Kentik enhances monitoring, capacity planning, and security auditing while providing intelligent alerting and diagnosis to improve uptime and reduce MTTR.
Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) optimises the digital experience across channels by identifying pain points and enhancing performance for websites, mobile apps, and networks. Evolving from APM and EUEM, DEM detects application and network issues, improving visibility and responsiveness. Kentik specialises in DEM for service providers, offering insights valuable to SaaS, PaaS, and enterprise IT professionals.
Network observability is essential for maintaining a healthy, secure, high-performance network across interconnected systems like data centers, clouds, and the internet. It helps professionals answer critical questions about network health, resolve issues swiftly, and optimise performance. This book explores how observability enhances uptime, productivity, and cost efficiency for critical services.
