The Need for Network Layer Management

Network engineering departments are under increasing pressure today. IT and network engineering in particular is tasked with delivering a predictable IP network service infrastructure that can support ever more IP services and mission-critical applications such as web-enabled applications and Voice over IP (VoIP). Yet, IP networks are far from predictable today. Brownouts, performance degradations, and intermittent disruptions still bedevil IP networks. Unpredictable and unexplained behavior is a major challenge for IP networks because it disrupts critical application availability and performance, impacts user and IT productivity, and reduces confidence in IT as a service delivery organization.

Complementing traditional, SNMP network management that only addresses device status, Route Explorer is the industry’s first network-layer management solution specifically built to tackle the dynamic, network-layer problems that are the key root cause of IP networks' unpredictable and unexplained behavior today.