Key
Features and Capabilities of VPN Explorer
- At a glance summary view of network and customer
VPN health
- Monitors and alerts on per-customer changes
in VPN site-to-site reachability and policy
- Detects and alerts on potential VPN privacy
issues (e.g. route leakage between separate
customers due to misconfigured PE routers)
- Accurate and complete routing event audit
trail for each customer VPN
- Automatically generates baseline of routed
topology for each customer's VPN
- Per customer alarms with fully configurable
thresholds and severity levels
- Detailed customer reports for VPN routing
analysis and long-term trending
- Full VPN routing diagnostic capabilities not
only detect, but help identify the root cause
of problems
- Network-wide Layer 3 topology discovery, visualization,
monitoring and analysis with unified view of
routing across all major protocols (BGP, MP-BGP,
OSPF, IS-IS, EIGRP)
- Multi-user support via X-Windows or VNC clients
includes customizable views per user
- 1U Rack Mountable appliance with GigE and
FE interfaces hosts all functionality
Key Benefits
- Maximizes network availability and customer
satisfaction by rapidly identifying and diagnosing
VPN routing faults
- Increases NOC operational intelligence for
proactive, real-time monitoring of customer
services and deviations from baseline
- Averts customer VPN provisioning misconfigurations
enabling faster time-to-revenue and positive
customer impression
- Boosts network performance by isolating the
root cause of layer 3 instabilities
- Provides continuity of customer forensics
information for more effective escalations from
NOC to engineering staff
- Verifies network routing is operating as intended
including levels of redundancy
- Lets network engineers predict routing-path
problems and take action before they occur
- Prevents embarrassing and costly router maintenance
window errors
- Highly cost effective appliance and low network
overhead approach ensures quick return on investment
- Reduces total operating cost by improving
productivity of both network resources and network
operations staff
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