IP MPLS

As voice, video, and data converge on your network, deploying MPLS routers can help guarantee adequate bandwidth to each of these applications. But to truly ensure quality of service, you must understand your network, whether the MPLS is directly under your control, or under that of a contracted service provider. Both scenarios require sophisticated network analysis tools to isolate problems to specific parts of the infrastructure. If deploying MPLS in-house, an analyzer that can see and decode MPLS labels is essential to successful deployment and maintenance.

The monitoring solution consists of central and probe servers, probe servers are controlled by central servers which can be located on a separate central site or on any of the capturing sites. The probe servers do continuously record the signaling from the monitored interfaces. The protocol analysis is started on demand from the central site by selecting the probe and the related links from which the data, historical or life data, is to be retrieved. Once started the raw data is transferred from the involved capturing probes to the server on the central site, to allow combined analysis and drill down on the central site.