real-time traffic engineering/management solutions

Wed Jun 4 17:39:46 UTC 2014

Two 'established' options are,

0. Noction IRP (As mentioned)
1. Internap FCP

Everyone appears to either be using one of these, or have gone full custom.

On 6/4/2014 午後 10:52, Tassos Chatzithomaoglou wrote:
> I'm having a look at real-time traffic engineering/management solutions that include visibility/analysis/control and offer the following basic characteristics:
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> 1) take into account
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>    * links utilization/threshold/deviation
>    * link price
>    * packet delay/loss
>    * physical/logical topology
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>
> 2) and offer real-time automatic ingress/egress traffic adjustment using
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>    * netconf & bgp to change localpref/med/aspath/community attributes (mandatory)
>    * SDN/Openflow/I2RS/PCEP technologies (optional)
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>
> 3) considering only IP traffic (MPLS can be optional), especially on external links used for peering and transit by tier-1/2 providers.
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> Do you have any personal experience regarding the above features?
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>  From my personal search Cisco offers Quantum/WAE (inc MATE) which seem very limited in real-time functionality and Huawei offers RR+ which seems interesting but unknown to many people (and maybe not compatible with all vendor routers).
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> Any other idea or commercial option? Offline answers would be good too.
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> Tassos
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