Traffic Explorer

Network-Wide Traffic Analysis

While many traffic analysis products claim to provide “network-wide” visibility, in reality they only deliver a link-by-link view of traffic statistics, and only on the small set of links that can feasibly be monitored. Without a network-wide view of traffic flows, along with an understanding of the dynamic impact of routing changes or failures on traffic, engineers are limited to manually correlating and interpreting disparate link traffic statistics, SNMP device polling data, router command-line output and log files to construct even a rough picture of network state. This greatly limits their ability to rapidly determine the root cause of problems, optimize network operation, or effectively analyze and plan for network change and growth. The result is sub-optimal application and service delivery, lower IT productivity, inefficient network asset utilization, and wasteful capital expenditures on unnecessary infrastructure upgrades.

Traffic Explorer uniquely delivers on the promise of network-wide traffic analysis, providing visibility into aggregate as well as per-application or CoS traffic flowing over every link in the network – not just directly monitored links. Traffic Explorer leverages the real-time routed topology intelligence of Route Explorer, the industry’s leading route analysis platform, to extend traditional traffic analysis beyond interface-centric reporting, providing end-to-end visibility of all traffic network-wide, but without requiring broad deployment of probes or the overhead associated with polling-based techniques. Engineers are able to interact with an “as-running” model of the network, where actual traffic flow information is dynamically overlaid on a real-time, layer-3 topology map. Traffic Explorer’s comprehensive view of network-wide traffic lets network engineers accurately and confidently perform their daily, weekly and monthly monitoring, troubleshooting, planning and maintenance activities, while delivering significant bottom-line benefits to any organization.

Engineers can see utilization and bandwidth by application or CoS for all links on the network--not just those directly monitored via Netflow

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