Netrounds

Netrounds is a software-based active testing and monitoring platform used by communications service providers and enterprises to validate and assure network and service performance.

• Active test and monitoring of IP, Ethernet, and service performance across networks
• Software-based test agents deployable on standard hardware, virtual machines, and cloud environments
• Support for automated service activation testing and continuous assurance workflows
• Focus on telecom-grade use cases for fixed, mobile, and data center network services
• Integration with existing OSS/BSS and network management systems for end-to-end assurance

More About Netrounds

Netrounds provides an active testing and monitoring platform (network performance assurance) used by service providers and enterprises to measure and validate the quality of IP, Ethernet, and higher-layer services from the customer perspective. Its software test agents generate real traffic across networks and services, rather than passively observing existing traffic, which supports verification of performance against committed service levels and contractual Service Level Agreements (SLAs).

The platform is typically deployed in telecom and large enterprise environments across access, aggregation, core, and data center domains. Netrounds test agents can run on off-the-shelf hardware, as virtual machines, or in cloud infrastructure, enabling coverage across physical and virtual network functions, branch locations, and customer premises. This architecture supports use in multi-vendor, multi-domain networks where centralized visibility of service quality is a requirement for operations teams.

Netrounds supports automated service activation testing (service assurance) that runs predefined test suites when new services are provisioned. These tests can include throughput, loss, latency, and jitter metrics, as well as application-level checks, to confirm that services meet configured performance thresholds before customer handover. The same active tests can run continuously or on scheduled intervals for ongoing monitoring, enabling early detection of degradation that may not be visible through fault management alarms alone.

The platform works with common telecom operations frameworks and can integrate with OSS/BSS and network management tools via open APIs. This allows test execution and result collection to be embedded into existing workflows such as provisioning, change management, incident management, and capacity planning. Results from active tests can be correlated with topology and configuration data to support triage and Root Cause Analysis (RCA) across complex network paths.

In marketplace taxonomies, Netrounds aligns with Network Performance Monitoring (NPMO) and diagnostics (NPMD), active service assurance, and test and measurement for carrier and enterprise IP/Ethernet services. It is used alongside, or in addition to, passive monitoring and logging tools, providing a complementary approach where synthetic traffic and transaction-style tests give a direct view of user-experienced performance across hybrid Wide Area Network (WAN), mobile backhaul, data center, and cloud-connected services.