Wednesday, February 11, 2026
BlueCat Networks has introduced BlueCat Horizon, a cloud-based SaaS platform that uses AI-assisted intelligence to transform how enterprises and mid-market organizations manage, secure, and optimize their networks. Unveiled at Cisco Live Amsterdam, Horizon represents a major step toward intelligent, automated, and coordinated network operations across traditionally fragmented environments.
Unlike legacy tools that operate in silos, BlueCat Horizon delivers a unified platform architecture that connects multiple network domains through a common set of infrastructure and data services. Consequently, organizations can break down operational barriers, improve collaboration, and enable cross-domain use cases that were previously difficult or impossible to achieve.
At the core of Horizon lies a shared control plane that integrates policy management, identity, telemetry, analytics, automation, and AI-driven intelligence. Through this centralized approach, network teams can apply consistent governance, correlate real-time signals, surface high-priority insights, and take coordinated action across DNS, DHCP, IPAM, security, and performance domains. As a result, networks can dynamically adapt, detect anomalies, and remediate issues automatically without requiring costly infrastructure overhauls or disruptive migrations.
Designed for cloud-first and hybrid environments, Horizon’s initial offering Horizon DDI provides a common orchestration layer that connects third-party systems with BlueCat-native capabilities. By integrating with Microsoft Active Directory, BIND, Kea, and cloud-based DNS platforms, organizations can modernize their DNS, DHCP, and IPAM operations while minimizing risk. Additionally, lightweight on-premises Service Points enable localized policy enforcement, deep telemetry collection, and data sovereignty ensuring compliance and operational control.
Beyond basic observability, BlueCat Horizon emphasizes decision-making and real business outcomes. Instead of merely collecting network data through SNMP and flow monitoring, the platform enriches insights with contextual intelligence from IPAM and DNS control planes. This enables smarter troubleshooting, faster incident response, and more resilient network operations.
For example, Horizon supports context-driven investigations by linking performance issues to ownership, location, and service criticality. Meanwhile, real-time intelligence informs DNS and Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) decisions, allowing automated traffic steering that enhances user experience. In parallel, Horizon strengthens security through DNS-based threat detection, correlated investigations, and closed-loop containment dramatically reducing response times from minutes to seconds.
Furthermore, Horizon’s common data model and shared analytics layer reduce manual correlation, prioritize high-risk incidents, and increase automation across IT and security workflows.
Built on proven BlueCat technologies including Micetro, Edge, LiveWire, and LiveNX Horizon offers a modular path toward intelligent NetOps. Organizations can start with core DDI capabilities and gradually adopt advanced services as their needs evolve, ultimately progressing toward self-healing, autonomous networks.
Scott Fulton, Chief Product and Technology Officer
Most network teams are constrained by tools that operate in isolation and require constant swivel-chair operations. BlueCat Horizon changes that model by providing shared platform services that connect insight to action. It provides a practical architecture for moving from reactive operations toward automated, policy-driven, and ultimately self-healing, intelligent networks.
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