Routing Intelligence
A real-time analysis of Internet routing
Renesys’ flagship product, Routing Intelligence® (RI), provides a unique view of your own Internet assets—from outside your firewall looking back. Now you can see yourself just as the distributed Internet does: in real-time, from every continent.
Routing Intelligence analyzes global routing data—root causes of changing data routes, network hijackings, outages, etc.—then displays the results in clear, concise formats. Network operators can use this in-depth analysis to maintain their global routing state, and their customers’ access. Adverse events are identified and resolved—before customers are affected.
Core technologies
- The Internet’s most comprehensive and detailed connectivity map is analyzed, interpreted and displayed in plain language and practical graphs.
- Data is collected continuously; routing analysis and alarming is delayed by 60 seconds—even when alarming on a majority of the Internet.
- Diverse views of worldwide routing tables make it easy to understand complicated routing events. Views spanning various time periods (seconds to months) and geographies are correlated and displayed.
- Graphical navigation of all AS routing adjacencies is animated, making observation of Internet backbone connectivity (during the preceding 28 days) dynamic and straightforward.
- Forensic analysis can be performed on routing events back to January 1, 2002.
- Analyzed data is portable. It can be exported in common data formats for additional processing or integration into other applications and tools.
Additional information
Features
Dashboard
The state of the global Internet is yours to peruse—delivered right to your desktop. Set up your dashboard to suit your preferences, then check targeted reports and monitor important events such as outages and hijackings.
- Global Internet connectivity map geographically pinpoints changing instability.
- Dynamic growth of worldwide routing table is updated continuously.
Autonomous System analysis
You can navigate with ease through the maze of Internet backbone network adjacencies with Renesys’ interactive star graph. Each backbone network is color-coded for easy identification and hot-linked to its connectivity graph. Click on any AS to display its interconnections from another viewpoint.
To help you find AS adjacencies quickly, the data is also detailed in tabular form. You can sort it by parameters such as AS number, name or time, and even export it for additional analysis.
You can also detail, in hierarchical order, all the networks (prefixes) within an AS. This will reveal the entire downstream network infrastructure for your review.
Network analysis
You can analyze routing data for one or multiple networks (prefixes), over any specified time frame back to January, 2002, with a wide range of practical tools.
- Routing summary includes outages, instability and hijacking.
- Animated routing diagram depicts current routing connections over time.
- Raw BGP routing data.
- BGP route change data shows routes before and after latest changes.
- Status of worldwide routing over time.
- Graphical representation of local and global Internet route events.
Benefits
Instant BGP Expertise
Empower your core round-the-clock network operations team with sophisticated BGP analysis tools. Suspicious events that once seemed too complicated are readily deciphered—you won’t need to call in routing experts for costly after-hours consultation.
Get the results of complex routing analysis in seconds. No endless script writing and debugging—and possibly missing the cause of a major routing event while you’re at it.
Beef up your existing inside-the-firewall tools with a comprehensive network visualization from the outside.
Internet event correlation
You can combine historic routing data with other data for comprehensive forensic analysis. Determine root causes of fluctuations in e-commerce revenue, user authentication, user session terminations, performance issues, etc.
Use Cases
Network Forensics: Attribute and solve problems
Super M Credit Card’s backbone Internet connection suddenly starts flapping—on Black Friday! This is no time for downtime! It’s the busiest day of the year for retailers (and credit card companies). The operations team quickly resets their Internet Connection links and gets the network back on track.
After a long holiday weekend with his in-laws, Super M’s routing expert, Clark, ambles in on Monday morning. Wham! Management is firing orders at him left and right! Find out what happened Friday fast! And make sure it doesn’t happen again!
So what happened last Friday? Network ops did a seat-of-the-pants reset, so there are no router logs to consult. Clever Clark opens up Renesys Routing Intelligence. He is about to become a hero. A thorough forensic analysis of network events prior to Friday’s failure soon reveals the root cause of the flapping: heavy congestion due to heavy shopping. Clark saves the day with an ingenious fix—and time to spare. Next weekend’s power shoppers can shop ’til they drop!