An autonomous system (AS) is a collection of routed IP networks that are under the same administrative authority, where internal routing information is shared among routers within the Autonomous System, but not with systems outside the Autonomous System. However, an Autonomous System announces the network addresses of its internal networks to other Autonomous Systems that it is linked to, typically via the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP).

BGP is an extremely verbose protocol, which makes it very difficult to monitor, analyze and troubleshoot. BGP route analytics technology provides deep visibility into BGP routing dynamics, allowing network engineers to analyze BGP event streams to find the root cause of routing failures.

Packet Design's Route Explorer provides unprecedented visibility and analysis features for BGP routing. Route Explorer's BGP route analytics features include:

• BGP RIB Visualization -- See a graphic, multi-hop illustration of your BGP topology including remote Autonomous Systems
• BGP Event History Navigation -- Move back in time to analyze past BGP event streams exactly as they happened
• BGP Root Cause Analysis -- Automated the analysis of hundreds of thousands of BGP events to discover the true BGP root cause event(s)

Download the BGP Root Cause Analysis and other white papers here

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