Network discovery and mapping

Sun Jun 22 17:16:38 UTC 2003

On Sun, 22 Jun 2003, Sean Donelan wrote:

> Has network discovery and mapping improved for medium-scale wide
> area networks for ISPs (e.g. 1,000 networks, 100,000 network devices)?
> I've found lots of discovery tools, but intelligent mapping/layout still
> seems to be a problem. The usual requirements for SNMP smart discovery,
> interface/subnet mapping, device identification and connecting the right
> symbols with the right lines to all the other symbols.

That's quite a "medium-scale".

Is there a single entity in the world that controls 1,000 networks and
100,000 network devices?

Andy

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Andy Dills
Xecunet, Inc.
www.xecu.net
301-682-9972
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