Zvolve Launches BGP QOS Software

ATLANTA -- Today, Zvolve Systems, Inc. announces general availability of its Conscious BGP solution. Carriers that connect to tier one Internet providers face the challenge of knowing which client’s data packets to preserve when traffic capacity exceeds its limits, Zvolve’s Conscious BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) software solution provides the ability to automatically maintain quality of service commitments. The Conscious BGP solution automatically optimizes network traffic and maintains bandwidth commitments to clients through its ability to recognize specific data traffic and also know what business commitments have been made to customers.

“A problem now facing many carriers is the high cost of interconnections between multiple tier one Internet providers coupled with the challenge of balancing network traffic over these links to ensure they are providing the best service to their customers,” said Luc Nguyen, Zvolve’s CTO and vice president of product development.

According to Nguyen, Zvolve expanded its product portfolio to focus on managing in-bound BGP traffic. He indicates that the current method of handling BGP traffic is to use a combination of tools and techniques which monitor the network and report traffic loads. Based on the reports, a trial and error process is often invoked to try to balance traffic as well as determine what should happen in fail-over situations. “They’ve removed all of the guesswork in BGP traffic handling,“ said Fernando Bellido, Executive Director, Engineering and Operations, Avantel in Mexico. “The whole process is now repeatable and extensible between one or multiple international traffic points. Also, the solution has allowed us to optimize our infrastructure.”

Zvolve Systems Inc.