Service providers often analyze the utilization statistics available from SNMP-enabled devices to make informed engineering decisions, diagnose faults, and perform billing. Despite being "simple," collecting and efficiently storing large amounts of time-series data quickly, without impacting network or device performance, is challenging in very large network installations.
This talk identifies several key areas of a service provider SNMP
statistical solution and introduces a new tool, RTG, that addresses these
issues. RTG is designed to serve as a foundation for a variety of
services, including billing, capacity planning, monitoring and customer
portals. We present the architecture, compare it with other freely
available solutions, and show graphs and reports unique to RTG.
About the Presenter
Robert Beverly is currently pursuing a Masters in Computer Science at MIT
while serving as a principal architect for Firefly Networks. Most
recently he was a senior engineer with WorldCom's Advanced Internet
Technology group, where he was responsible for the statistics and
measurement infrastructure of several large networks. Prior to WorldCom's
acquisition, he worked for MCI Internet Engineering on the
very-high-performance Backbone Network Service (vBNS).