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OPNET Technologies,

OPNET


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Intelligent Network Management for Service Providers

Todays service providers are faced with a host of business challenges. How to accelerate deplo

ment of new services, attract and retain high-end customers, reduce operating costs, and mainta

superior service quality in a world of exponential growth and shifting technologies? ServiceProvid

Guru (SP Guru) was created to address these issues.

SP Guru is a software product unique in its ability to understand the entire network, including

routers, switches, protocols, servers, and individual applications. The intelligence embedded in S

Guru represents the newest, most advanced technology available for troubleshooting, operationa

validation, planning, and design of service provider networks.

OPNET

"For service providers large

and small, the stubborn

riddle remains: how to

everage fast-moving

echnology into long-lasting

profitable business models."

McQuillan Ventures

Revenue Generation:

The key to winning new strategic accounts while retaining existing customers

is consistently delivering high quality services. SP Guru accurately predicts

the effect of growth and network changes, enabling you to maintain service

levels while accelerating provisioning and deployment of new services.

Operating Cost Reduction:

Your bottom line is dependent on how you manage bandwidth and

equipment. Realize better return from your most costly operating assets.

SP Guru provides powerful, automated network design capabilities to

optimize the use of network resources.

Operational Efficiency Improvement:

Service providers are dependent on highly skilled individuals to identify andresolve technical problems. SP Guru provides structured, repeatable

diagnostic and validation capabilities that accelerate problem resolution,

alleviating pressure to grow operations staff.

Risk Reduction:

Your business is exposed when your networks are exposed. By simulating

failures and overload conditions before they happen, you can deploy more

resilient networks. By validating configuration changes before deployment,

you can avoid costly mistakes and speed deployments with confidence.

Why ServiceProvider Guru is Essential for Service Providers

OPNETs extensive, diverse customer base includes the leading providers of communica-

tions services around the world. They realize significant, strategic return on investment from

their use of OPNET software.


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ServiceProvider Gurus Virtual Network Environment

SP Gurus Virtual Network Environment replicates the behavior of your entire network. By working

in the Virtual Network Environment, your network planners, architects, designers, network engi-

neers, and operations staff can more effectively troubleshoot existing problems, validate changes

before deployment, plan for future growth, ensure network resiliency, and optimize network

designs for superior service quality.

OperationalNetwork

Environment

Topology

Devices

Configurations

Traffic

SP Guru leverages existinginformation to understand

your entire network

Troubleshooting

Validation

Planning

Design Optimization

TroubleshootPerformance

Problems

Visualize your network

and traffic flows

Debug network configu-

ration errors

Pinpoint bottlenecks

Diagnose problems with

hosted applications

Validate ChangesPrior to

Implementation

Test network configura-

tion changes before

committing

Right-size capacity

adjustments before

provisioning

Tune protocols with

confidence

Validate QoS policies

prior to deployment

Plan Aheadfor Growth

and Resiliency

Plan for traffic growth

and new services

Demonstrate benefits to

prospective customers

Define achievable SLAs

Ensure readiness for

equipment or link

failures

Study the impact of

deploying new

technologies

VIRTUAL NETWORK ENVIRONMENT

Optimize Currentand Future

Network Designs

Choose from a library

of powerful design

algorithms

Perform traffic engineer-

ing to optimize use of

network resources

Accurately predict

service levels

Automatically generate

configuration changes


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SP Guru provides powerful, flexible mechanisms to automatically build a realistic, detailed model

of your network. It includes facilities to capture topology and configuration information, as well as

traffic and link utilization data. SP Guru can recreate the behavior of an existing service provider

network, or predict link utilization and service levels for a wide range of what-if scenarios.

Leverage discovery capability from network management platforms by importing topology data.

Create your virtual network from router configuration files, automatically setting configurations o

each device.

Load your network with traffic matrix information and link utilization data directly from a variety

traffic data collection tools.

Flexible import capability allows you to import virtually any network data from standard formats

(XML, ASCII).

The Intelligence to Understand

The Intelligence to Troubleshoot Problems

Troubleshoot the causes of problem behavior occurring in both operational and planned networks

Recreate problem scenarios and visualize traffic distributions.

SP Gurus NetDoctor feature tests the entire network model against established rule suites in

order to identify problems that may result from misconfigurations or protocol conflicts.

Define custom rules, using an open scripting interface, to systematically check configurations

using your organizations policies.

Use OPNETs Application Characterization Environment to diagnose the source of hosted applic

tion performance problems.

Native device configurat

files are imported to

populate a network mod

with fully configured obje


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SP Gurus Virtual Network Environment provides a buffer between your network management staf

and the operational network by validating tactical changes prior to implementation.

Test changes to network configurations to ensure validity and to minimize the risk of introducin

new errors.

SP Guru predicts link utilizations and detailed end-to-end QoS measures after routing changes o

capacity upgrades.

Tune protocols with confidence by checking that desired effects on routing and performance ar

achieved.

Modify QoS policies with a precise understanding of how different classes of service will be

affected in a variety of traffic scenarios.

The IntelligenceTo Validate Changes Prior to Implementation

Networks have become

xtraordinarily complex and

ser demands seem to grow

veryday; the result is that

mple, old-school routing

rocedures are insufficient

r today's carrier-class net-

orks. OPNET and the

MPLS Model Development

onsortium have gone to

reat lengths to create a

ighly accurate MPLS model

hat we believe will be a key

nabler of next-generation

etworks. Traffic engineers

ill have a very powerful

ol to structure traffic flow

nd manage end-to-end net-

ork performance."

OPNET Customer

SP Guru validates changes to configurations, capacity,

protocols, and QoS policies.

Leverage NetDoctors library of pre-defined rules or

author your own.


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SP Guru incorporates powerful decision support for

network designers and engineers.

Perform load balancing, link dimensioning, and traffic

engineering.

Automate physical and logical topology design and

optimization for IP, Frame Relay, ATM, and MPLSnetworks.

Choose from standard algorithms or use OPNET-

proprietary techniques to design efficient architec-

tures that are resilient to traffic fluctuations.

Customize design parameters to reflect local policies

for balancing service levels and network cost.

Export router configuration data automatically from

your design, to facilitate network provisioning.

The IntelligenceTo Plan Ahead for Growth and Network Resiliency

SP Guru combines best-in-class discrete-event simulation, and analytical modeling, to deliver accu

rate predictions for any what-if scenario. This empowers service providers to maximize ROI in the

planning process.

The IntelligenceTo Optimize Current and Future Network Designs

The magnitude of the 3G

igration will drive wireless

oviders to look to more

ructured and exact methods

determining the network

nd financial resources

quired to successfully bring

G to market. Predictive net-

ork analysis and planning

ftware will provide wireless

erators with key competitive

dvantages, enabling them to

minate the guesswork and

ore accurately manage the

st and performance of an

erational 3G network."

RHK

Determine which architecture and costs are

required to successfully deliver specific ser

ice-levels measured by delay, delay variatio

and loss.

Perform exhaustive failure analyses to detemine which traffic flows will be most affecte

by outages, and where the most likely resu

ing bottlenecks will be.

Understand the impact of deploying new tec

nologies, protocols, or hosted applications.

Leverage SP Gurus comprehensive Model

Library of protocols and technologies

(includes TCP/IP, OSPF, IS-IS, BGP4, ATM,

PNNI, MPLS, UMTS, Gigabit Ethernet, vendo

specific device models, and more)

Draw from an extensive library of design algorithm

to create a customized design strategy.

Accurately simulate traffic growth based on demand profiles and a detailed under-

standing of both routing and queuing in a multi-technology, multi-vendor environment


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ProblemAn ISP planned to implement MPLS to improve bandwidth efficiency and performance. They

considered several possible deployment scenarios and approaches to traffic engineering. These

could be implemented in their lab to test for product functionality and compatibility, but they coul

not reproduce the scale of the live network and its traffic loads.

SolutionSP Guru was used to build a detailed model of the providers actual IP backbone network, by

importing configuration files. Traffic matrix data was imported to provide a view of the current,

actual traffic demands. Several possible MPLS deployment scenarios were defined, building on th

scope of the initial deployment, considering whether a full (single level) mesh or two-level mesh oLSPs should be deployed.

SP Gurus automated design features were used to create custom strategies reflecting each of th

deployment scenarios. MPLS was implemented on the appropriate routers in the Virtual Network

Environment, making them LSRs. Explicit primary and secondary routes were created, automatica

ly ensuring that the secondary routes were node disjoint from the primary routes for optimum

resiliency. Traffic was introduced and the LSPs were automatically sized to meet service level

objectives for the demands being routed over them. The ISP tested their preferred scenario unde

different rates of projected traffic growth to assess the longevity of their design. Finally, an

exhaustive survivability study was performed to ensure SLA compliance if traffic were to be

re-routed following single node or link failures.

ResultsThe service provider was able to

accelerate deployment plans of

their core MPLS network by

approximately six months, havin

achieved higher confidence in

their design and the ability of

their network to deliver

competitive service levels.

Case Study:Plan for MPLS in the Core Network

MPLS is the technology that

ables us to provide premium

PN services defined by explicit

As. OPNET software is

dispensable for network

sign, enabling service

oviders to optimize network

source utilization and per-

rmance, and satisfy reliability

quirements."

OPNET Customer

Experiment with different approaches to traffic

engineering and deployment scenarios.


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OPNET Technologies, Inc.

OPNET

OPNET Technologies7255 Woodmont Avenue

Bethesda, Maryland 20814

phone: (240) 497-3000

fax: (240) 497-3001

www.opnet.com

Note:SP Guru functionality des

in this brochure can be achieve

through a combination of the S

base product, and optional mo

Contact OPNET for more inform

on the recommended product

configurations that suit your

unique requirements.

Winner of NetworkWorlds

Best of the Tests Award

Finalist at

Networld+InteropAtlanta and Las Vegas

Winner of theSUPERQuest Award

at SUPERCOMM

2001 OPNET Technologies Inc OPNET is a registered trademark and Ser icePro ider G r is a trademark of OPNET Technologies Inc

Only ServiceProvider Guru

Only SP Guru has the intelligence to understand your entire

network. SP Guru leverages the power of the Virtual Network

Environment to troubleshoot problems, validate changes, plan

for growth and network resiliency, and optimize network

designs.

Enabling technologies for SP Guru include:

Automated Import/Model Generation

NetDoctor Configuration Validation

Extensible Rule Library

Flow Analysis

Failure Analysis (includes nodes, links, and underlying facilities)

SLA Compliance Analysis

Discrete-event Simulation

Hybrid Simulation

QoS Simulation

Open API

XML Interfaces

Extensive Library of Customizable Design Algorithms

Automated Configuration Data Export

Comprehensive Model Librar y (includes TCP/IP, OSPF, IS-IS,

BGP4, ATM, PNNI, MPLS, UMTS, Gigabit Ethernet, vendor-

specific device models, and more)

About OPNET

Founded in 1986, OPNET Technologies, Inc. is the leading

provider of intelligent network management software. TheOPNET product suite combines predictive modeling and a

comprehensive understanding of networking technologies to

enable its customers to more effectively design and deploy

networks, provision services, diagnose problems, optimize

traffic flows and resource utilization, and predict the impact of

network changes. For more information about OPNET and its

products, visit www.opnet.com.

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