MPLS WAN Explorer Overview

MPLS WAN Explorer extends Packet Design’s industry-leading route analytics technology, which works by passively recording routing protocols such as OSPF, IS-IS, EIGRP and BGP to compute, monitor and analyze network-wide routing behavior.  MPLS WAN Explorer delivers a real-time view of enterprise WAN architecture, showing site-to-site paths across one or more outsourced L3 MPLS VPN services, while monitoring reachability between all sites.

Monitoring and Alerting on Changes in WAN Reachability

• Creates a baseline of site-to-site reachability specifying prefixes to be exchanged between sites
• Monitors active prefixes and alerts on any deviations from baseline to identify reachability problems

Real-Time Network Visualization

• Generates and always up to date, accurate map of WAN routing architecture to understand and monitor VPN policy and status
• Not dependent on multi-minute SNMP polling cycles; helps IT respond faster to emerging issues

Improves Service Provider Accountability

• Helps diagnose when the Service Provider is responsible for WAN outages
• Ensures Enterprise IT receives the service quality they're paying for

Accurately Simulates Changes on an Always Up-to-Date Network Model

• Simulates changes in routing or traffic for failure analysis or when planning network changes
• Helps engineers understand the impact of adding new sites or deploying new applications before making changes
• Highly Scalable Architecture
  
• A single MPLS WAN Explorer appliance can manage an entire enterprise network including multiple L3 MPLS VPNs from multiple Service Providers
• Monitors full IGP network domains within all major sites (e.g. datacenters), as well as reachability through the VPN to all “satellite sites” with no IGP domain (e.g. branch offices with a single router)

Works with Traffic Explorer to Deliver VPN Traffic Reports

• Analyzes MPLS VPN traffic usage by WAN link, site, Class of Service, traffic group or Top-N reports
• Monitors and trends traffic loads to perform accurate WAN planning

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