India, March 5 -- Accenture has entered into an agreement to acquire Ookla, a provider of network intelligence, competitive benchmarking and customer experience analytics. The acquisition will allow Accenture to integrate Ookla's data products, including Speedtest, Downdetector, Ekahau and RootMetrics, into its services.

The companies said the integration is intended to support communications service providers, hyperscalers and enterprises in managing and optimising Wi-Fi and 5G networks that underpin digital infrastructure.

Network performance data has increasingly become important beyond the telecommunications sector. As artificial intelligence deployment expands, insights gathered across network, device and application layers are bei...