Your real-time digital twin
Route Optimization and Analysis (ROA) delivers powerful, real-time digital twin capabilities that create an accurate virtual representation of your multi-layer transport network, enabling sophisticated what-if analysis capabilities.
Network teams can simulate and visualize the impact of planned changes at the IP/multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) and optical network layers before implementation, model different routing scenarios at will, and understand how modifications will affect traffic patterns across their multi-vendor infrastructure.
Do you need to understand the impact of an outage across a link? No problem. What if traffic spiked by 20%? You can see that, too. How about validating new network investments? ROA helps you ensure you’re getting the results you expect and desire.
Link failure simulation in Digital Twin
Assure and automate your IP/MPLS network and services
Modern IP/MPLS networks are built on a vendor-agnostic, ecosystem approach with thousands of routing paths—each carrying a myriad of critical services and 5G network slices.
These dynamic networks need next-gen analytics and observability for informed decision-making and to enable faster activation, assurance, and automation of IP/MPLS services and slices. But traditional monitoring tools fall short of delivering meaningful insights that correlate network performance and routing behavior with service delivery.
ROA fills this visibility and management gap in your IP/MPLS networks. It delivers observability into IP/MPLS network and overlay services, including 5G network slices from any tower to the data center. And with ROA’s path computation and provisioning capabilities, you are on the path to service automation.
"Blue Planet Route Optimization and Analysis gives us visibility into the behavior of our network that we never had before. We identify and diagnose problems much faster, and by modeling changes beforehand, we have much higher confidence in our change management process."
- José Campos, Technical Project Manager at REN"Blue Planet Route Optimization and Analysis enables us to assure revenue-generating customer services, including Layer 3 VPNs. Its real-time routing analytics, alerts, and back-in-time forensics provide the visibility we need to detect, diagnose, and fix service delivery issues faster than ever before. In addition, the modeling capability mitigates risks from network changes by allowing us to run what-if analysis and showing us the impact of the changes even before they are made."
- Ion Talvan, IP Network Architect, Orange RomaniaWhile Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), event log, traffic flow, deep packet inspection, application monitoring, and other similar tools are ubiquitous, they do not deliver insights into how routing behavior and network performance impacts service delivery, especially when it comes to 5G and Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC)–driven dynamic networks and services.
ROA captures real-time routing telemetry and correlates it with traffic and performance metrics to deliver both real-time and back-in-time forensics that help assure IP/MPLS services and network slices. This data is further leveraged for network planning with what-if analysis, helping you understand the impact of network changes before they are made.
Finally, ROA’s built-in Path Computation Element (PCE) and support for Path Computation Element Protocol (PCEP) puts network operators and service providers on the path to service automation and assurance, helping accelerate time to revenue, decreasing churn, and containing costs.
Features and benefits
Vendor-agnostic, correlated routing traffic and network performance analytics for IGP and BGP routing, L3 and L2 VPNs, TE tunnels, and multicast traffic
Built-in PCE and PCEP support for automated path provisioning and network optimization that is critical to 5G network slicing
Temporal observability from any tower to data center to enable historical, real-time, and future analysis for 5G network slices
Replay of historical routing events to troubleshoot L2/L3 service issues in the digital twin environment
Simulation of planned multi-layer network changes with what-if analysis to understand their impact on the network and traffic
Flexible implementation options include consumption of ROA in an elastic SaaS model or deployment in your cloud or on premises
Troubleshoot Faster with Blue Planet Route Optimization and Analysis
In this demo video, we show how you can quickly troubleshoot service delivery issues using custom dashboards and routing path lookup features in Blue Planet Route Optimization and Analysis product.
Blue Planet ROA comprises the following modules:
Route Analysis—the foundation of ROA— collects and analyzes all IGP and BGP routing events. It provides real-time and historical visibility into the dynamic routing operation of the entire network—including Traffic Engineering (TE) tunnels—enabling fast identification and resolution of difficult-to-diagnose network and service problems, effective and trouble-free network maintenance, and easy and accurate planning for network changes and optimization.