Challenges
Performance and Availability Risks to Colocation Sites
Enterprises have been leveraging colocation (co-los) facilities as a critical part of their cloud strategies for several years to achieve a number of important goals. Co-los offer flexibility, cost control, resilience, and typically bring services closer to user communities which can significantly improve access time and performance and minimize last mile latency.
Simultaneously, there can be drawbacks to consider including increased network complexity, vendor dependency, blind spots, and delays during incidents. Most importantly, quality network and application performance for customers and employees using services hosted in colocation sites must be maintained if not improved.
Outcomes That Matter
Observability Delivers Performance at Your Critical Colocation Sites
Reduce mean time to repair (MTTR)
Avoids delays when incidents occur by maintaining high performance for service through co-los.
Overcomes observability gaps
Facilitates enterprise-wide network and service performance assurance.
Simplify complexity
Vendor-independent troubleshooting at co-los for quality user experience of any application, anywhere.
Minimize business risks
Assure revenue, cost, productivity, and compliance targets are met using NETSCOUT’s award-winning solutions for observability.
NETSCOUT’s Solution and How It Delivers Value
Know Where and Why – Restore Fast
Colocation plays a pivotal role in hybrid cloud strategies through direct cloud interconnect to cloud partners, supporting carrier diversity for redundancy and value, and enabling improved customer experience with reduced latency and delay for remote locations and users. Assuring this flexibility and resiliency demands observability from NETSCOUT.
Leveraging NETSCOUT vendor-independent solutions, with deep packet inspection (DPI) at scale, delivers actionable insights that help solve some of the most difficult technical challenges such as:
- Why access to corporate services seems unavailable: Is it the remote office network, VPN access at a colocation site, or the data center application server?
- Who are the top users and what applications are contributing to a bandwidth bottleneck and when.
- Pinpoint when there is a handoff issue between the colocation and a cloud partner.
- Identify performance issues across the network following an application migration to the colocation.
NETSCOUT solutions for observability are deployed in the world’s largest, most complex networks to overcome visibility gaps and streamline troubleshooting in distributed, multi-vendor environments.
Industry Recognition
Technology Leader in Network Observability and Performance
NETSCOUT Remains Technology Leader with Smart Data and AI/ML-driven Analytics in the latest SPARK Matrix ™ for Network Observability, Q3 2025
Recognized for Best Practices in the Global Network Monitoring Industry
NETSCOUT Recognized as Frost & Sullivan 2025 Company of the Year – Driving Impact Across the Customer Value Chain
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FAQs
Frequently Asked Questions
How do NETSCOUT solutions for observability differ from legacy performance management tools?
NETSCOUT’s Visibility Without Borders strategy sets a high bar for continuous visibility in any networking infrastructure. NETSCOUT supports the variety of technologies found in hybrid-cloud environments including physical segments, virtualized environments, as well as Kubernetes environments using eBPF technology. Other tools lack the depth and breadth of deep packet inspection in all these areas simultaneously. NETSCOUT’s solution for observability transforms Smart Data into actionable insights that lower MTTR with true root cause analysis enterprise-wide.
Can NETSCOUT provide observability in virtualized environments in colocations?
Yes, in addition to supporting physical segments in colocations for north-south visibility with InfiniStreamNG appliances, NETSCOUT also supports observability in virtualized environments with the vSTREAM virtual appliance for east-west traffic monitoring.
Can NETSCOUT provide observability in Kubernetes environments in colocations?
Yes, NETSCOUT’s Omnis KlearSight Sensor for Kubernetes sets a new standard for observability by overcoming blind spots in Kubernetes environments that may be deployed in colocations among other areas of the hybrid cloud network.
How does NETSCOUT instrumentation and deep packet inspection help eliminate visibility gaps in colocation sites?
Packets provide a granular, unchangeable record of every communication and transaction. Leveraging NETSCOUT vendor-independent solutions, with deep packet inspection (DPI) at scale, delivers actionable insights that help solve some of the most difficult technical challenges in any infrastructure environment, including colocations.
