Distributed Route Explorer

Route Explorer can be deployed in a distributed, multi-appliance architecture consisting of:

• Route Recorders: Streamlined appliances that are geographically distributed to monitor and record routing activity in one or more routing domains (e.g., IGP areas or BGP ASs), and forward routing data to a Modeling Engine for interactive analysis. Route Explorer appliances can also be deployed where a local user interface is required.
• Modeling Engine: A centralized appliance that synthesizes routing topologies collected by distributed Route Explorer and Route Recorder appliances, and provides unified monitoring, analysis and modeling of network-wide routing activity.

Key Features and Benefits of Distributed Route Explorer:

• Increases network management availability and continuity by geographically distributing route recording appliances,. If a network error or partition leads to loss of connectivity between a Modeling Engine and a remote Route Recorder/Route Explorer, the remote appliance continues to record locally. Even though the Modeling Engine will temporarily lose visibility to the remote appliance’s portion of the network during the partition, full routing history is resynchronized to the Modeling Engine once connectivity is restored.
• Supports any combination of global and regional network management domains. If Route Explorer appliances are distributed for route recording, their local graphical user interfaces allow for local monitoring of each routing domain. If a local GUI is not required, Route Recorders provide a lower-cost option for distributed route recording with a centralized interface.
• Offers flexibility for a range of route analytics deployment models, including redundant Route Recorders per routing domain, and multiple Modeling Engines to support more users or provide fault-tolerance.
• Meets the needs of organizations with multi-tiered and regionalized network management domains.
• Supports network deployments where GRE tunneling is not available.

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