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Key Takeaways
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- Employ enhanced network configuration management (NCM) to automate changes, ensure compliance, and boost resilience.
- Gain end-to-end insight to pinpoint issues that affect users, even on networks you don't own.
- Transform raw data into informed action with enhanced interactive topology maps and new analytics-driven reports.
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As your partner in network observability, we’ve worked together to help you manage an increasingly complex digital landscape. You’ve built a powerful monitoring foundation, but the pace of change doesn’t slow down. Your network continues to expand across hybrid clouds and multi-vendor SD-WAN, and the demands on your team grow with it.
Our commitment is to ensure your observability capabilities evolve to meet these new challenges head-on. That’s why the philosophy behind the Fall 2025 release of Network Observability by Broadcom is one of enhancement and evolution. We are building directly upon the foundation you already trust, introducing powerful new capabilities designed to work with your existing setup. This release is about elevating your insights and automation, empowering you to stay ahead of the curve as you continue to drive your business forward.
From reactive fixes to proactive control
Your network's performance and security are only as strong as its configuration. Research shows 30% of network-related problems are caused by bad configuration changes. Manual processes have become a critical source of outages, security risks, and compliance breaches.
To address this head-on, we are making automated network integrity a foundational pillar of our platform. Powered by our enhanced network configuration management (NCM), we transform a high-risk, reactive process into a proactive strength. We provide the automation to streamline configuration tasks, help to enforce compliance with industry standards, such as those issued by PCI or DISA, and gain a safety net for rapid recovery. This ensures your network is configured correctly and consistently, reducing risk and freeing your team to focus on strategic initiatives instead of fixing preventable errors.
From powerful visualization to interactive insight
Many of you rely on our topology maps to understand network connectivity. With the Fall 2025 release, we’re taking this powerful visualization to a new, interactive level. Your topology map is becoming a dynamic, single pane of glass for your entire hybrid network. These maps feature native visualization for multi-vendor SD-WAN environments like Meraki and Versa. Instead of just seeing connections, you can now interact with the map to drill down into issues and launch triage actions on the spot. This enhancement turns a view you already trust into your primary command center for investigation and root cause analysis, reducing the time spent switching between tools. We are getting really good feedback from customers, who appreciate how well topology capabilities scale and how responsive they are for massive global deployments.
We've also continued to modernize our flow monitoring. Next-Gen Flow builds on our existing capabilities to provide even deeper visibility into traffic patterns, helping you move further from reactive fixes to proactive performance optimization and capacity planning.
Answering the ultimate question: "Is it the network?"
We've all been there: Your dashboards show everything is healthy, but users are reporting a poor experience. This industry-wide challenge often leads to cross-team finger-pointing. Our new Active Experience capability is designed to provide a definitive answer.
By integrating AppNeta's powerful active monitoring, you gain a true, hop-by-hop view of the application delivery path—even across environments you don't own, like ISP networks and public clouds. When a user reports an issue, you get concrete evidence to pinpoint the source of the problem. This new capability allows you to end the blame game with fact-based data, fostering better collaboration and dramatically speeding resolution.
To further enhance accuracy, we are upgrading our monitoring capabilities to default to TCP, the same protocol used for most web traffic. While single-ended path monitoring has often relied on ICMP, this protocol is increasingly subject to server-side blocking, which can create blind spots. By shifting to TCP-based monitoring, we provide a more reliable and accurate view of true application and network performance, reducing false positives and providing the definitive evidence needed to answer the "is it the network?" question with confidence.
Best of all, to help you immediately realize the value of this perspective, we are including three free AppNeta licenses with your Fall 2025 update. This offer covers the monitoring of 15 applications from each of three sites. Because this capability is integrated into your existing data collectors, you can make monitoring from your data centers available with just the click of a button. You can begin bridging the gap between network data and true user experience right away.
Deeper analytics for continuous improvement
Your data is a strategic asset, and this release introduces new analytics-driven reports to help you get even more value from it. Building on our existing reporting foundation, these new reports are designed to help you measure and improve your team's operational effectiveness.
New Alarm Noise Reduction Reports quantify the impact of your tuning efforts, giving you the confidence to reduce alarm fatigue and focus on high-priority issues. With new Alarm Mean Time to Respond (MTTR) Statistics, you can benchmark your team's responsiveness, identify process gaps, and make continuous improvements in how you handle incidents. This evolution in analytics provides the metrics you need to mature your NOC processes and demonstrate clear value to the business.
The Fall 2025 release of Network Observability represents the next step in our shared journey. It’s about enhancing the platform you rely on every day, ensuring you are equipped not just for today's challenges, but for what comes next.
These new capabilities are designed to help you advance along your operational journey. To see how these features align with moving from a reactive to a proactive, experience-driven organization, explore the Network Observability Maturity Model.
