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PDF link   Network-Wide IP Routing and Traffic Analysis: An Introduction to Traffic Explorer
This white paper introduces the concepts, technology and benefits of Traffic Explorer's integrated IP routing and traffic analysis and modeling
     
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IP Route Analytics: A New Foundation for Modern Network Operations
This white paper introduces the concepts, technology and benefits of IP route analytics

     
PDF link   TE Explorer--Real-Time Traffic Engineering Management with Route Analytics
This white paper provides an overview of the challenges of managing traffic engineered networks, and how TE Explorer helps network managers monitor RSVP-TE tunnel dynamics, ensure tunnel protection, manage tunnels bandwidth and utilization, and model network changes.
     
PDF link   MPLS WAN Explorer--Routing and Traffic Visibility for Outsourced MPLS VPN WANs
This white paper provides an overview of the challenges of managing networks that have outsourced their WAN routing toa MPLS VPN Service Provider, and how MPLS WAN Explorer can restore enterprise IT's end-to-end routing visibility, help keep Service Providers, and increase the quality of application.
     
PDF link   VPN Traffic Explorer: Comprehensive MPLS VPN Management Visibility for MPLS Core Networks
This white paper provides an overview of how VPN Traffic Explorer provides network-wide and per-VPN routing and traffic monitoring, historical troubleshooting, network modeling and capacity planning.
     
PDF link   Integrated Routing & Traffic Analysis and Modeling for Internet Peering
This white paper explores how Traffic Explorer can help network managers analyze, model and optimize their peering/transit relationships
     
PDF link   Network-Wide Traffic Capacity Planning with Route Analytics
This white paper explains how route analytics technology provides the network-wide breadth and depth of traffic capacity planning visibility needed to ensure application and service delivery while optimizing existing infrastructure and reducing capital expenses
     
PDF link   How Route Analytics Enables Virtualization and Cloud Computing, by Jim Metzler
This report from analyst Jim Metzler explores virtualization and cloud computing, how they further complicate already challenging enterprise network management issues, and how route analytics enables network managers to understand their network's increasingly dynamic behavior to more effectively roll out virtualized and cloud-based IT infrastructures.
     
PDF link   2010 Cloud Networking Report, by Jim Metzler
This report from analyst Jim Metzler addresses the need for IT managers to understand the networking and network management implications of cloud computing, and offers insights into the most useful technologies for managing this new technology, including route analytics.
     
PDF link   The Business Case for Better Network Planning and Management
This white paper by analyst Jim Metzler explores the challenges that increasingly complex networks pose to IT managers, then delves into the technical and business benefits that route analytics-based network planning and management deliver.
     
PDF link   Managing the "Cloud" in Cloud Computing with Route Analytics
Cloud computing makes understanding complex enterprise and Internet IP routing more critical for enterprise network managers. This white paper explains why, and how route analytics fills the visibility gap left by traditional network management and helps to ensure the success of cloud computing deployments
     
PDF link   Next-Generation Mobile Network O&M with Route Analytics
Mobile Operators face daunting network management challenges in delivering the onslaught of high-speed data service traffic and moving to LTE. This white paper explains how route analytics provides the visibility to stay on top of critical network dynamics
     
PDF link   Ensuring Network Integrity, Continuity and Process Enforcement with Route Analytics
This white paper discusses the complex challenge of ensuring the integrity and continuity of IP networks supporting critical government, military and public service missions, and explains how route analytics' enhanced visibility helps IT managers ensure that their networks are always ready to pass the test for mission-critical requirements.
     
PDF link   Ensuring Critical Financial Transactions with Route Analytics
This white paper reviews the challenges that dynamic and unpredictable IP network behavior poses to sensitive financial transactins and shows how route analytics' network-wide visibility into routing and traffic behavior can be used to ensure credit card clearing, trading transactions and increase overall network continuity for financial networks.
     
PDF link   Enhancing Network Monitoring with Route Analytics
This white paper explains why traditional SNMP management approaches aren't enough for complex IP network topologies, and shows how route analytics fills a critical visibility gap for network operations.
     
PDF link   Network-Wide Change Management Visibility with Route Analytics
This white paper exposes the limitations of current change management tools and processes, and shows how route analytics' network-wide, operationally accurate network change modeling provides the missing ingredient needed to greatly improve the accuracy of routine routing and traffic change operations.
     
PDF link   Ensuring SCADA Network Continuity with Route Analytics
This white paper addresses the SCADA monitoring and management challenge, explains why large, complex IP networks need insight into their networks’ “logical operations”, and how route analytics provides network-wide routing and traffic visibility to help IT ensure the continuity of utility grids and other critical infrastructures.
     
PDF link   The Mandate to Integrate Network Planning and Network Operations
This white paper written by industry analyst Jim Metzler, analyzes the critical need and the complex technological challenges to integrating network planning with operations data to make change management and planning processes more practical, and shows how route analytics brings these two worlds closer together, with significant benefits to network managers and the end users relying on the network to deliver their applications.
     
     
PDF link   Route Analytics: Poised to Cross the Chasm
This white paper written by industry analyst Jim Metzler, reviews end user and vendor perspectives on the value of route analytics, showing that route analytics technology is poised to "cross the chasm" and become a mainstream network management technology--a must have for large, complex IP networks.
     
PDF link   Regaining MPLS VPN WAN Visibility with Route Analytics
This white paper shows how route analytics can help network managers regain network management visibility over MPLS VPN WANs by monitoring and troubleshooting on VPN integrity, remote CE site reachability and redundancy, and remote site routing health.
     
PDF link   Proactive Routing Health Audits with Route Analytics
IP routing controls exactly how application and service traffic transits the network. The problem is, in complex, redundant networks, its very difficult to know how routing is behaving. This paper shows how route analytics can provide comprehensive routing health analyses, enabling engineers to identify weak spots, under-utilized resources and ticking time bomb misconfigurations in their routing architecture, and ensure the best application and service delivery.
     
PDF link   Network Management Time Travel with Route Analytics
Learn how Packet Design's route analytics allows engineers to "rewind the network" and troubleshoot network-wide routing and traffic conditions as if they were at that past point in time, dramatically speeding root cause analysis of application and service problems
     
PDF link   Understanding Logical Network Operations with Route Analytics and Netflow
This white paper provides a primer on how route analytics and Netflow data provide unique insight into how networks actually deliver application and service traffic and allow engineers to achieve operational excellence
     
PDF link   Network-Wide Class of Service (CoS) Management with Route Analytics
This white paper illustrates how route analytics technology can be applied to help IT managers gain network-wide visibility into CoS delivery by understanding both routing and traffic dynamics.
     
PDF link   Speed Network Operations Procedures with Route Analytics
This white paper illustrates how route analytics technology can be easily applied to speed NOC troubleshooting, maintenance and achieve more accurate information hand offs during problem escalation.
     
PDF link   Easing Data Center Migration with Traffic Explorer
This white paper explores how Traffic Explorer can help network managers simulate migrating servers between data centers to ensure the higher application performance and optimize WAN costs.
     
PDF link   The Logical Causes of Application Degradation, by Jim Metzler
This white paper examines the logical vs. device-specific causes of application degradation, and explains how route analytics can help IT organizations cut down on finger-pointing, speed troubleshooting, and increase planning visibility.
     
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Network Layer Management: Foundation for Predictable IP Services
This white paper explores how route analytics can help network engineering deliver a predictable network infrastructure.

     
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Preventing and Solving EIGRP Stuck-In-Actives with Route Explorer
This technical brief illustrates how Route Explorer can be used to much more effectively reduce, mitigate and resolve the incidence of Stuck-In-Active errors.

     
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Route Analytics for RFC2547bis MPLS VPNs: Putting the Layer 3 into Layer 3 VPN Management
This technical brief discusses the critical need for per-customer VPN, Layer 3 visibility and management of MPLS VPNs, and the Route Explorer for MPLS VPN solution for enhanced customer VPN service assurance

     
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Leveraging Route Explorer to Solve Common EIGRP Problems
This technical brief illustrates how Route Explorer can help increase network enginering's responsiveness and effectiveness in troubleshooting commonly occurring EIGRP routing problems.

     
PDF link   Enhancing Routing Operations Best Practices with Route Explorer
This white paper explores how route analytics can help network engineering perform routine router operations with greater accuracy, confidence and responsiveness.
     
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Meeting the BGP Managment Challenge with Route Analytics
This technical brief discusses the daunting technical challenges in managing BGP routing deployments, and how route analytics is applied to dramatically increase BGP management efficiency and service uptime.

     
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Route Explorer EIGRP Technical Note
This technical note provides a backgrounder on the operation of Route Explorer in EIGRP networks and how to maximize the EIGRP management benefits of route analytics

     
PDF link   Managing IP Network Unpredictability with Route Analytics
This white paper explains why IP networks are unpredictable by nature, what this means for application delivery and how route analytics can help
     
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Route Analysis for Converged Networks: Filling the Layer 3 Gap in VoIP Management
This white paper explore how route analysis can significantly increase the reliability and quality of VoIP deployments

     
PDF link   2011 Handbook of Application Delivery, Planning and Management
Webtorials Analyst Division
     
PDF link   “Packet Design Combines Traffic Flow with Route Analytics to Offer a Foundation for Next-Generation Traffic Management”
Enterprise Management Associates' White Paper on Traffic Explorer
     
PDF link   HP’s Strategic Partnership with Packet Design Signals a Landmark in Network Troubleshooting
Enterprise Management Associates' Impact Brief on the HP OEM of route analytics technology from Packet Design
     
PDF link   Traffic Explorer Data Sheet
     
PDF link   Route Explorer Data Sheet
     
PDF link   MPLS WAN Explorer Data Sheet
     
PDF link   IGP/BGP Route Analytics Data Sheet
     
PDF link   VPN Explorer Data Sheet
     
PDF link   VPN Traffic Explorer Data Sheet

 

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