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For ISPs

Introduction

Several ISPs have deployed Trisul in their networks to gain deep insights into their peering and routing efficiencies. In addition to the normal metrics, device, and interface level drilldowns made available in Trisul Netflow Analytics.

The Trisul ISP configuration adds the following.

  1. Peering Analytics
  2. Prefixes IPv4 and IPv6
  3. AS analytics
  4. Mapping ASN, Prefixes, Geo location to gateway routers and interfaces
  5. Private Peering analytics with content providers
  6. Route analytics
  7. Custom metering of downstream customers usage patterns

Network integration diagram​

The following diagram is an overview of integration points (some are optional) for a Netflow based ISP analytics solution.


Network Integration Diagram

The following data source ingestion are supported. Except the Netflow others are optional.

Data sourceNotes
NetflowThis is mandatory. All versions of Netflow/JFlow/IPFIX/Sflow/Netstream are supported. ISP Netflow best practices must be followed such as sampling and ingress policies
SNMPOptional: for SNMP interface traffic. Useful to add on dashboards along with Netflow interface
BGPOptional: if customer requires Route Analytics and Peer vs Origin AS
DNSOptional: if customer needs the OTT Analytics App. TO identify content such as Amazon,Netflix,Youtube,Whatsapp, Insta etc
Radius/AAAOptional: If customer wants to map IP address to dynamically subscriber ID. Needs real time syslog capability from the AAA side.

Features of Trisul ISP​

Apart from the usual Trisul Network Analytics features, our ISP Module has several special monitoring features. They can be grouped as

FieldDescription
AS AnalyticsAutonomous system traffic monitoring. AS to AS traffic matrix, AS drilldown. Flexible AS Monitoring at global level, per router, and per interface.Peer AS monitoring.Use case is ISP can keep track of AS traffic flows at minute level
Prefix AnalyticsPrefixes are important for traffic engineering purposes. Like AS analytics, Prefix analytics is also available at global level, per router, and per interface
RoutingFull BGP support.Trisul includes a high performance built in route receiver that can peer with dozens of gateways.AS Path analytics tells you busiest paths and segments for both upstream and downstream customers.AS Path analytics is available at global level (busiest route in ISP Network) and also at per-interface and per-router level.Powerful graphical and tabular tools are available. ISP can track Peer AS and Origin AS separately
CountryMain use case is to see traffic egressing country on optimal traffic route east or west coast depending on final destination. Per Country in/out traffic is provided again at global level, per router, and per interface granularity.
DrilldownsThe above mentioned AS,Prefix,Country analytics can also be done in a drilldown method. Rather than starting with a router/interface you can start with a AS Number and see where the traffic is coming from for that AS
Device MonitoringUsing the powerful Routers and Interfaces tool customers can track any router and any interface and drilldown to usage

BGP and Netflow​

The Trisul ISP feature is enabled in the starter configuration by mixing Netflow and BGP.

  • To install Trisul APPs and dashboards specific to ISP analytics, Refer ISP Analytics