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Cisco Live 2026: The Agentic Era Is Here and Your Network Is Already Behind

By Adam Howarth, Data Scientist and Field Engineer at Plixer Cisco Live 2026 was not a conference about what’s coming. It was a conference about what’s already ...

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How to Monitor and Investigate AI Agent Network Traffic 

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Network Security

How To Investigate Encrypted Traffic Without Decrypting It 

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Network Operations

How to Bridge NetOps and SecOps Teams: A Complete Guide for 2025

In today’s complex IT landscape, the traditional silos between NetOps and SecOps teams have become more and more counterproductive.

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Deep Network Observability

Understanding Network Observability: A 2025 Guide for NetOps

A trend of this decade is that we’re being flooded with information and data points. Certainly, an overabundance of

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Network Operations

Understanding MTTR (Mean Time to Respond) and How to Reduce It

Because system downtime can have serious financial and operational consequences, NetOps teams often find it useful to track MTTR

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Deep Network Observability

The Network Operations Paradox: Why More Automation Often Leads to Less Understanding

Author:  Nils Werner​, Director of Customer Success Here’s an uncomfortable truth: As our networks become more automated, many teams are

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Network Operations

The changing needs of network performance monitoring

Recently, I was asked by one of our long-time customers whether Plixer had abandoned its traditional Network Performance Monitoring

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Network Operations

NetOps and SecOps Collaboration Benefits the Business

Not only have NetOps and SecOps teams historically been separate, but they have often seen each other as impediments

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