1.2 IRP Overview

BGP is a fundamental technology for the fault-tolerance of the Internet, which chooses network paths based on the number of hops traffic must traverse before it reaches its destination. However, BGP does not take into account the important factors of network performance. Even if multi-homing does provide some redundancy, multiple network outages have shown that multi-homing alone is not the solution for risk diversity and business continuity. When major blackouts or congestions happen, multi-homing gives a fallback link for the “first-mile” connection rather than providing a way to route around the Internet “middle-mile” issues.

Noction Intelligent Routing Platform (IRP) is a product developed by Noction to help businesses optimize their multi-homed network infrastructure. The platform sits in the network and gets a copy of the traffic from the edge routers. The system passively analyzes it for specific TCP anomalies and actively probes remote destination networks for various metrics such as latency, packet loss, throughput, and historical reliability. It computes a performance or a cost-improvement network traffic engineering policy and applies the new, improved route by announcing it to the network`s edge routers via a traditional BGP session.

Noction IRP is a complete network monitoring and troubleshooting solution that facilitates the detection, diagnosis, and automatic resolution of performance issues. It delivers real-time views and dashboards that allow to visually track network performance and generate triggers, alerts and notifications when specific problems occur.