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On 6/24/05, Daniel Golding <[email protected]> wrote: > > Just to ignore your wishes and reply on-list :) > OK, I'll bite. (-: > Other folks may be interested. The general area is known as "route > analytics". The box you are talking about may be from Packet Design (the HP > solution is OEMed from them, I believe) or Ipsum networks. This is separate > from modeling and simulation tools like Cariden, Opnet, and Wandl which all > offer some greater or lesser degree of routing protocol support. After hitting send, of course, I came across both Packet Design's and Ipsum's product; neither of which are the manufacturer I had in mind. However they do perform the same functions. > I believe the original idea for these boxes was to target service providers, > but enterprises are also quite interested in the field, especially with the > growth of RFC2547 VPNs. A box like this can help an enterprise keep track of > the BGP advertisements and any OSPF/EIGRP redistribution at their sites > (which can number in the thousands). The box I'm referring too was marketed towards MPLS, traffic engineering, and QoS visibility and monitoring. Had a handsome visualization tool as well. > My personal opinion is that questions about Internet/WAN technology vendors > on a _high_ level are perfectly appropriate for NANOG - at least as much as > "is xyz down?" :) More in-depth stuff ("how do I configure my GSR to dance > the lambada") belong on the appropriate NSP lists... While I agree wholeheartedly, I started actively following NANOG less than a year ago, during which nearly every discussion had someone questioning it's relevance and on-topic-ness; which, frankly, was and still is, off putting. I apologize being so vague about all this - a fuzzy photographic memory is both a blessing and a curse. I don't remember the manufacturer, or what I was even looking for when I came across it. All I recall is a limegreen-ish box in the datasheet pdf; a mention of how, by being able to speak MPLS and it's ilk, the appliance didn't have to poll devices, nor was it a point of failure; and a strong focus on its traffic engineering and QoS visibility features. After looking at Packet Design and Ipsum, neither is the product I'm trying to "rediscover". Many thanks for the off-list replies. If anyone has any clue what I'm referring too, on or off list replies are welcomed. Regards, aaron.glenn
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