Tutorials

Route Explorer Tutorials

Network Planning and Maintenence Validation

• Route Explorer gains real-time knowledge of the IP network from the routing protocols themselves and helps network engineers perform essential scenario planning before and during network maintenance.  Working on the most accurate and up-to-date network topology helps prevent outages and increase network up time.
• Route Explorer’s highlighting of end-to-end paths in a running network and simulation of possible link failures can save hours in the provisioning and deployment of new services such as VoIP and MPLS VPNs, while reducing the potential for outages caused by misconfigurations.
• Route Explorer can help tune a production IP network by simulating link metric changes in real-time with no risk, helping network engineers respond to traffic peaks faster, with more confidence, and lower risk.
• Route Explorer can help preserve the investment in server redundancy by showing the accessibility of servers from all parts of the network and helping tune their access and load sharing.
  

Five ways Route Explorer can help your network planning and maintenance

1. For an end-to-end path (e.g. VoIP, MPLS VPN tunnel), easily simulate single and multiple link failures and view the secondary paths. [HTML] [PDF]
2. Experiment with link metrics to see when a route would change, to plan traffic flows (e.g. 6 pm high water mark) without affecting production traffic.  [HTML] [PDF]
3. See what effect single or multiple router failures will have on service availability.  [HTML] [PDF]
4. Adding new routers during a maintenance period, Route Explorer can show where end-to-end paths go and reachability is maintained.  [HTML] [PDF]
5. After adding backup servers Route Explorer can show which parts of your network use which server and help verify that the duplicate servers will be available in the case of possible link or router failures. [HTML] [PDF]

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