MPLS
You are likely weighing the benefits of private IP but are uncertain if you should migrate from your existing infrastructure – one that is working for you. Enterprises are seeing the benefits of a private IP infrastructure but remain worried about potential issues including prioritizing and managing Class-of-Service (CoS), monitoring layer 3-based connectivity, and measuring SLAs across multiple classes.
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Growing conglomerate J.M. Huber utilizes Visual UpTime Select in support of its MPLS network.
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Visual UpTime Select helps you identify and solve the two critical aspects of prioritizing your applications — what applications are on the network and are the applications prioritized correctly. Visual UpTime Select auto-discovers the applications across the entire infrastructure. So instead of prioritizing a subset of all the applications, you now have the knowledge of total application usage so you can completely assign the CoS settings. There are three potential pitfalls that commonly occur during this process: IP header configurations set incorrectly, applications are placed in the wrong class and exceeding thresholds provided by your carrier. Any of these can wreck havoc on your CoS prioritization. Visual UpTime Select reduces that exposure for each of these issues.
As enterprises migrate from frame relay or ATM to an MPLS-based network, a big change occurs in network architecture. End-to-end connectivity is no longer Layer 2-based (DLCI or VCI), it is not Layer 3-based (IP subnet-to-IP subnet). This is a major paradigm shift in managing the network infrastructure because it has evolved from dedicated connectivity paths to any-to-any connectivity. Now that remote sites can directly communicate together, the challenges of managing remote locations becomes even a great challenge. Visual UpTime Select provides the visibility to see exactly what is going on between these locations.
Visual UpTime Selecthas been a leader in SLA verification by providing independent analysis and measurements from an end-to-end perspective. More important, instead of waiting for a monthly report from your provider, you receive an up-to-the-minute view of service level parameters including availability, delay and throughput. As you migrate to an MPLS-based network, you will implement multiple classes of service. Visual UpTime Select still provides the up-to-the-minute SLA measurements, but also breaks those down by individual CoS settings. So now you can evaluate if your highest priority setting has better SLA performance than your lowest priority setting.
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