Does anyone know of competitors to internap's fcp product?
Also, I would greatly appreciate if anybody could explain what
technically is internap fcp.
Does anyone know of competitors to internap's fcp product?
Avaya/Route Science. I would check if this product is still sold by Avaya. Many moons ago I tested it.
Also, I would greatly appreciate if anybody could explain what
technically is internap fcp.
A box that can manipulate your outbound BGP routes since BGP doesn't take into consideration link congestion, delays etc.
Zaid
Internap's FCP is a bgp route optimizer. It connects to your network on the
sideline and captures traffic either on a span/mirror port or by receiving
flow data. Then based on your rules it probes to find the best routes and
acting as route reflector will inject the routes to your network or just
send you alerts and draw pretty pictures. Optimization can be for
performance and/or cost. It also routes around issues like black holes.
It's really only valuable when you're multihomed.
The only competitor I'm aware of that is gone now was Avaya's RouteScience.
There also exists a site packetdesign.com which *may* have a competing
product.
Here's the internap info:
http://www.internap.com/business-internet-connectivity-services/route-optimi
zation-flow-control/
It's old, but at the time I thought it was a great article:
http://www.networkcomputing.com/wan-optimization-and-application-acceleratio
n/229623159?pgno=2
Frank