While ICMP Ping is a useful application to verify that there is connectivity between one IP host and another, Paragon Active Assurance is a complete solution for both testing and real-time monitoring of data plane KPIs unavailable with Ping. This includes UDP metrics for one-way delay and jitter, packet reordering, packet loss, and multicast performance -- with support for TWAMP (RFC5357). For TCP, the solution measures stateful TCP throughput and efficiency (based on RFC6349). For services, metrics include HTTP and DNS response times, HTTP throughput, voice MOS quality, multicast performance, and HTTP streaming video quality.
While ICMP is limited to sending 5 packets per second (for non-root users), Paragon Active Assurance can generate active synthetic traffic and measure one-way jitter down to tens of nanoseconds using hardware time-stamping features of Intel NICs.
Also, all automation capabilities and metrics in Paragon Active Assurance are exposed through NETCONF or REST APIs of the controller, which can be either SaaS or on-premises.
So our active assurance solution is much more than just basic ICMP Pings. I hope that explains.
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Mats Nordlund
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Original Message:
Sent: 06-08-2021 11:48
From: Michael Pappas
Subject: Join us! Ask the Expert: WAN Automation and Paragon
We received the following question:
How is Paragon Active Assurance different to using ICMP Pings?
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Michael Pappas
Original Message:
Sent: 06-02-2021 12:04
From: Michael Pappas
Subject: Join us! Ask the Expert: WAN Automation and Paragon
Join us! Ask the Expert: WAN Automation and Paragon
When: Tuesday, June 8, 11 AM-12 PM EST
Where: Here on the Elevate Community
Valued Community Members,
We invite all Elevate Community members to join us for an Ask the Expert session focused on WAN Automation and Paragon. Join the session and ask our experts, Peter Weinberger, Mats Nordlund, and Yasmin Lara, your WAN Automation and Paragon questions.
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No need to RSVP! Simply join us in the Ask the Expert community on June 8 at 11AM EST. Make sure you reply directly to this thread with your questions when the event starts so the experts know what you want them to cover. If you are unavailable for the event but have questions, please send them to me via private message and I will post them on your behalf. You will be able to see all the questions and answers after the event.
As always, reach out to me, your community manager, if you need help or have questions about this event.
I hope to see you there!
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Michael Pappas
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