MPLS Service Providers
MPLS networks have become the de-facto standard for enterprise IP-VPN services. Compared to previous technologies, MPLS enables more flexibility for change management, native any-to-any connectivity, and better Quality of Service (QoS) by using classes of service.
But enterprises want more. They want more visibility about the delivered WAN services. Monitoring bandwidth consumption per access link on a five minute average is not sufficient. They also want more control and granularity to manage application performance.
By using the StreamSense platform, MPLS operators can provide new advanced services to their customers. And for the first time, these advanced services can be enabled in an easy and simple way, without the complexity of traditional telco solutions. The underlying traffic management technology requires few parameters to enable all services, whether related to visibility or performance control. Moreover, Management and Provisioning features simplify all configuration tasks and make change management easy.
Because of the trend toward centralization and IT consolidation, most traffic is exchanged with a few central sites. The new services powered by StreamSense can thus be implemented with Data Center Solutions.
The value-added services for MPLS Service Providers are :
- Advanced Visibility into WAN infrastructure and application delivery performance, relying on best-in-class StreamSense real-time monitoring and reporting features. Enterprises can understand which applications are used the most and how they perform over the WAN. Moreover, visibility into resource usage enables accurate and effective bandwidth planning. Bandwidth upgrades can be justified and their impact on performance can be guaranteed.
- Class of Services Control on MPLS networks with Classes of Service enabled. StreamSense MPLS Class Control features enable visibility into Class of Services usage, better congestion management and QoS, and more flexibility in traffic classification.
- Quality of Experience Control on MPLS networks without QoS (or with a single VoIP class). Rely on StreamSense ABBA engine and Advanced QoS features to dynamically and automatically protect business application traffic and guarantee End-users Quality of Experience.
