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News Topics: Main | New England | New Jersey / New York | San Francisco Bay Area | Southern California | Texas | Canada | Europe | Israel | People | Archive Start-up Company Directories: Optical | Wireless | Silicon | DSL   Packet Design's Route Explorer Offers MPLS VPN Visibility Packet Design introduced new "VPN-aware" version of its Route Explorer appliance, giving service providers visibility into the layer 3 virtual private network infrastructure. Route Explorer/MPLS VPN incorporates the IETF RFC 2547bis standard, which uses both BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) and MPLS. The new system adds support for MP-BGP (Multi-protocol BGP). By applying layer 3 route analytics to VPNs, Packet Design said its Route Explorer lets service providers visualize -- in real time and without the overhead of polling -- how individual VPNs are overlaid on their network infrastructure. Specifically, they can monitor: reachability within the customer VPN, ensuring that VPN prefixes are being properly distributed between relevant provider edge (PE) routers for each customer site; privacy, guarding against unwanted route "leakage" or mingling of information between customer sites; policies, knowing whether VPN prefixes are distributed in accordance with customer-specific requirements, such as a full-mesh or hub-and-spoke. A single Route Explorer unit installed in the service provider's backbone network peers with provider edge routers and immediately begins monitoring all customer VPNs. By dynamically tracking VPN routing information -- e.g., all PE routers participating in the VPN and every prefix being "advertised" from every customer site -- the system automatically generates a baseline of each customer's VPN. A graphical "dashboard" then displays any deviations from the baseline http://www.packetdesign.com 21-Oct-04 Recent Start-up News Cisco to Acquire Arch Rock for Wireless Energy Sensors 9/2/2010 FiberTech Networks Sold to Investor Group for $500 Million 8/26/2010 Cisco to Acquire ExtendMedia for Video Content Management 8/26/2010 Nimbula Raises $15 Million for Cloud OS 8/25/2010 VSS Monitoring Raises $20 Million for its Distributed Taps 8/24/2010 Nokia to Acquire Motally for Mobile Analytics Service 8/20/2010 LG-Ericsson USA Launches, Integrates Accton's SMC Networks 8/16/2010 Talari Networks Secures $10 Million for WAN Virtualization 8/11/2010 MobileIron Raises $16M for Smartphone Management 8/3/2010 YouSendIt Secures $15 Million for Secure Content Delivery 8/3/2010 Wavesat Develop Tri-Band LTE Reference Design for Consumer Handsets 8/2/2010 NTT DOCOMO Acquires PacketVideo for Embedded Mobile Software 8/2/2010 IBM Acquires Storwize for Real-time Data Compression 7/29/2010 Boeing Completes Acquisition of Narus 7/29/2010 Juniper to Acquire SMobile for Mobile Security 7/27/2010 > More news...   Search  this site   Search the Web   Get Your Column Published Emergency Response and Wireless Location Systems by Manlio Allegra Interview: NSN's Sue Spradley on LightSquared's Wholesale Mobile Data Paradigm by Sue Spradley Mobile Backhaul Transition Requires New Testing by Joe Zeto Cybersecurity Requires Public/Private Coalition by Greg Oslan A Rethinking of Cloud Services and Network Architecture by Jim Theodoras Delivering Scalable Video Solutions <br><i> Advantages of SVC-Optimized QoS</i> by Andy Singleton       E-mail Newsletter Sign up for a FREE TRIAL of our newsletter