General network planning without traffic visibility is mostly based on peering negotiations with other IP transit and Tier 1 providers. The lack of detailed visibility into the large amounts of traffic driven by CDNs and OTT providers make those negotiations more challenging, as the parties argue about who’s behind those large flows of content and who should pay for transiting it.
A DNS-probe solution would not be feasible and would not scale in their environment due to higher costs.
This provider currently employs the Sightline and TMS for the purpose of traffic analysis and DDoS Mitigation. The primary focus of this organization’s strategy is based on bandwidth and capacity provisioning, or more precisely, standing up PoPs, and traffic analysis for Service Assurance.
The TMS capacity is for infrastructure protection and Managed DDoS Protection Services that are now seen as an indispensable part of the company portfolio.
NETSCOUT Visibility solutions help inform the decision to open a new PoP by providing traffic flow matrices between existing and prospect customers and partners to uncover new market opportunities within existing regions or by expanding in new geographies.
They also used the capabilities of our solution to offer customers the ability to capture visibility on their specific network traffic as well as mitigating DDoS attacks. This has become a revenue opportunity for them.
