BGP Peering Analysis

	BGP Peering Analysis
	Service Providers and Content Providers manage complex sets of Internet peerings that support core services and account for a significant percentage of their network operating costs. Given the critical top and bottom-line importance of Internet services, network engineering departments must conduct ongoing peering analyses to optimize service performance and cost. Typically, network engineers have been handicapped by a lack of comprehensive information and tools to manage their Internet peerings, due to incomplete routing and traffic visibility, and siloed analysis and modeling tools. The complexity and verbosity of the BGP routing protocol doesn't help. BGP can generate extreme numbers of events--up to hundreds of thousands, from relatively simple root causes. Finding the root cause event needle amongst such a large haystack of protocol messages is often beyond human capability. Route analytics provides an answer by giving network engineers deep insight into BGP routing dynamics and event history. Packet Design's Route Explorer and Traffic Explorer are the industry's leading route analytics and traffic analysis solutions, providing unprecedented visibility and analysis features for BGP routing and traffic flows to aid in BGP peering analysis. Route Explorer's BGP route analytics features include: BGP RIB Visualization -- See a graphic illustration of your multi AS-hop BGP topology BGP Event History Navigation -- Move back in time to analyze past BGP event streams exactly as they happened BGP Root Cause Analysis -- Automated the analysis of hundreds of thousands of BGP events to discover the true BGP root cause event(s) Traffic Explorer provides network-wide, routing-aware Netflow analysis, including extensive BGP peering traffic analysis. Download the BGP Root Cause Analysis, Internet Peering Traffic Analysis and other white papers here © 2007 Packet Design Inc., All Rights Reserved - Privacy Policy

Service Providers and Content Providers manage complex sets of Internet peerings that support core services and account for a significant percentage of their network operating costs. Given the critical top and bottom-line importance of Internet services, network engineering departments must conduct ongoing peering analyses to optimize service performance and cost. Typically, network engineers have been handicapped by a lack of comprehensive information and tools to manage their Internet peerings, due to incomplete routing and traffic visibility, and siloed analysis and modeling tools.

The complexity and verbosity of the BGP routing protocol doesn't help. BGP can generate extreme numbers of events--up to hundreds of thousands, from relatively simple root causes. Finding the root cause event needle amongst such a large haystack of protocol messages is often beyond human capability. Route analytics provides an answer by giving network engineers deep insight into BGP routing dynamics and event history.

Packet Design's Route Explorer and Traffic Explorer are the industry's leading route analytics and traffic analysis solutions, providing unprecedented visibility and analysis features for BGP routing and traffic flows to aid in BGP peering analysis. Route Explorer's BGP route analytics features include:

BGP RIB Visualization -- See a graphic illustration of your multi AS-hop BGP topology
BGP Event History Navigation -- Move back in time to analyze past BGP event streams exactly as they happened
BGP Root Cause Analysis -- Automated the analysis of hundreds of thousands of BGP events to discover the true BGP root cause event(s)

Traffic Explorer provides network-wide, routing-aware Netflow analysis, including extensive BGP peering traffic analysis.

Download the BGP Root Cause Analysis, Internet Peering Traffic Analysis and other white papers here