Network engineers need help to deliver a predictable IP network service infrastructure to support increasingly sensitive, converged services such as VoIP, video and web-enabled applications. The very distributed intelligence that makes IP networks resilient and cost-effective, makes them vulnerable to unexpected and intermittent degradations and disruptions. Yet, traditional SNMP management can’t cope with the dynamic, network-layer problems that cause unpredictable and unexplained behavior in IP networks today.
The Route Explorer family is the industry’s first Route Analysis solution. Route Explorer provides network-layer management by leveraging the intelligence of IP routing protocols to provide unprecedented visibility into the complex interactions in IP networks. A single Route Explorer appliance provides unified, network-wide Layer 3 monitoring, analysis and troubleshooting for Enterprise and Service Provider networks across a broad range of popular routing protocols. The Route Explorer solution simultaneously supports multiple Interior Gateway Protocols (IGPs) such as EIGRP, OSPF, and IS-IS, as well as BGP and RFC 2547bis MPLS VPNs, across multiple areas and Autonomous Systems (AS). Route Explorer provides network engineering departments a rapid return on investment (ROI) by decreasing unpredictable network behavior and downtime, and increasing user and engineering productivity
The Route Explorer family provides unified, network-wide Layer 3 analysis and troubleshooting for Enterprise and Service Provider networks across a broad range of popular routing protocols. The Route Explorer solution simultaneously supports multiple Interior Gateway Protocols (IGPs) such as EIGRP, OSPF, and IS-IS, as well as BGP and RFC 2547bis MPLS VPNs, across multiple areas and Autonomous Systems (AS).
- Route Explorer for EIGRP: The industry’s only Route Analytics solution for Cisco EIGRP networks. Includes automated detection of Stuck-In-Active errors.
- Route Explorer for OSPF/IS-IS: Comprehensive Route Analytics for link-state routing protocols.
- Route Explorer for BGP: Supports inter-AS monitoring and powerful diagnostics tools that are invaluable in sifting through hundreds of thousands of Internet routes to isolate problems. A sophisticated BGP Root Cause Analysis function automatically analyzes high volume BGP messages to reveal root cause events.
The Need for Network Layer Management
Network engineering departments are under increasing pressure today. IT and network engineering in particular is tasked with delivering a predictable IP network service infrastructure that can support ever more IP services and mission-critical applications such as web-enabled applications and Voice over IP (VoIP). Yet, IP networks are far from predictable today. Brownouts, performance degradations, and intermittent disruptions still bedevil IP networks. Unpredictable and unexplained behavior is a major challenge for IP networks because it disrupts critical application availability and performance, impacts user and IT productivity, and reduces confidence in IT as a service delivery organization.
Complementing traditional, SNMP network management that only addresses device status, Route Explorer is the industry’s first network-layer management solution specifically built to tackle the dynamic, network-layer problems that are the key root cause of IP networks’ unpredictable and unexplained behavior today.
Key features and capabilities of the Route Explorer family
- Network-wide IP routing (Layer 3) visualization, monitoring, analysis and troubleshooting
- Records all routing updates in the network without device polling
- Real-time and after-the-fact problem detection and diagnosis
- Provides an accurate historical routing event audit trail for forensic analysis
- “What-if” impact analysis and scenario planning
- Configurable and proactive SNMP and syslog alarms to an NMS on IP layer changes, anomalies or outages
- Detailed web-based reports for network routing analysis and long-term trending
- At-a-glance, network-wide information on routers’ Layer 3 configurations
- Self-contained, 1U rack mountable appliance with GigE and FE interfaces hosts all functionality—no external servers required
Key benefits
- Maximizes network availability and customer satisfaction by rapidly identifying and diagnosing IP routing faults
- Boosts network performance by isolating the root cause of layer 3 instabilities
- Averts router misconfigurations that cause 1/3 of all network problems
- Lets network engineers predict routing-path problems and take action before they occur
- Verifies network routing is operating as intended including levels of redundancy
- Reduces total operating cost by improving productivity of both network resources and network operations staff
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