Route Explorer Adds BGP Support for Route Analytics

Enterprise Networks & Servers, Nov 2003

An IP route-analysis tool that brings full routing-path visibility to networks running the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) has been introduced by Packet Design.

Packet Design has added BGP routing analysis capability to its Route Explorer platform, bringing route analytics for the first time to networks that use BGP to exchange routing information between interconnected "autonomous systems." Route Explorer had previously supported two interior gateway protocols: OSPF and IS-IS (Intermediate System-Intermediate System), which exchange routing information within an autonomous system.

In conjunction with the new BGP support, Route Explorer now lets network engineers view an entire multi-domain routing structure as a single, seamless topology map, providing the ability to display and highlight end-to-end routing paths across network domains and protocol types. In a network running any combination of BGP, OSPF and IS-IS, problems that cross protocol boundaries, within or between autonomous systems, can be pinpointed at a glance. Previously, topology maps were isolated by routing protocol, viewable only separately.

In addition, Packet Design has expanded its Route Explorer family to include three modular versions of the appliance, allowing organizations ranging from small campus-like settings to large multi-domain enterprises and service providers to choose the platform specific to their network size and mix of routing protocols.

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