Spotting Single Points of Failure
Design for availability The fundamental purpose of a data network is to connect users with applications, data producers and consumers with storage. The most desirable feature of a network is to maximise availability of those services to the endpoints that consume them. In order to…
IP Fabric 3.3: Visual Intent Verification
IP Fabric version 3.3. adds capability to visually represent intent-based network verifications among other improvements.
IP Fabric Technical Product Demo
Today we will go through a quick demonstration of the IP Fabric platform and its main features. The IP Fabric platform is the network management system that helps companies to empower network engineers and teams to discover, verify, and document large scale networks within minutes.
Network Visualization and Topology Mapping
As networks become increasingly complex, the job of network administrators becomes more and more demanding. To understand the sheer amount of effort that the role takes, you only have to look at the task of analyzing the enormous amounts to status information within a network.
Low Level Design document on the fly
Documentation is a critical part of any project or technical environment. If we don’t jot down some important information along the way, we end up repeatedly asking the same basic questions over and over again, completely draining our team members. We’ve heard from many team…
Routing Protocol Visualization
Routing, one of the most important features in network world. It’s been at least a two decades since most of ISPs rely on Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) in their core, supported by Interior Gateway Protocols (IGP). Local area networks are running and routing with use…
IP Fabric 2.2.5: Staying longer in network diagrams
This week we released IP Fabric version 2.2.5 which focuses on improvements of network diagram workflow, significantly improving the depth of information provided in the diagram tooltips, and improving readability of the End to End path diagrams. We’ve also added pseudo-STP links, or MAC edges,…
End to end network path analysis
If a user reports that a certain application is not working for them, especially after a migration or a change, how do you verify the connectivity? Finding a path in a complex network can be hard enough by itself, having to map active switching and…
IP Fabric 2.2.4
Today we’re announcing the release of IP Fabric 2.2.4. A network security oriented release, the new version enables you to troubleshoot the paths through firewall clusters, to have deeper insights into routing convergence and redundancy, or to prepare or verify migration changes to 802.1X among…
Spotting Single Points of Failure in a graph
Enterprise networks should never have Single Points of Failure (a.k.a SPOF) in their daily operation. SPOF in general is an element in a system which, if stopped, causes the whole system to stop. Single failure (or maintenance or misconfiguration) of any network device or link…