The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is an Exterior Routing Protocol (EGP) used for inter-Autonomous System (AS) routing. Common uses of BGP are for Internet access and peering connections with Service Providers, MPLS VPN connectivity between enterprise CE (Customer Edge) routers and Service Provider PE (Provider Edge) routers, and inter-domain routing within large Service Provider and enterprise networks. BGP is an extremely verbose protocol, which makes it very difficult to monitor, analyze and troubleshoot. Packet Design's BGP route analytics technology provides deep visibility into BGP routing dynamics.

Packet Design's Route Explorer delivers powerful BGP monitoring and analysis capabilities that allow network engineers to better manage Internet peerings, MPLS VPN WAN service peering and routing, and inter-AS routing. Route Explorer monitors key BGP health condition sand trigger SNMP trap or syslog alerts based on:

• BGP route flaps
• BGP AS path becoming longer
• Lost peerings
• Gained peerings
• Statistically interesting gains or losses in prefixes

Other BGP route analytics features include:

• BGP RIB Visualization -- See a graphic illustration of your multi AS-hop BGP topology
• 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)

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