VPN Explorer

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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