Flow Control Platform (FCP) Solutions

Intelligent Routing Networks | IP Network Load Balancing

K2 Colocation is proud to offer the industry's leading Intelligent Routing and Network Load Balancing appliance from Internap® the The Flow Control PlatformTM (FCP).

This appliance will allow your business to effectively manage and maintain full control over your cost based multi-homed IP routing network. The unit offers policy based Intelligent Load Balancing between your ISP carriers.

Some key benefits of the Internap® Flow Control PlatformTM (FCP) solution:

• Dynamically measure the end-to-end performance of your applications, including performance over the public Internet
• Quickly and easily implement changes based on those measures
• Report on network performance and cost, perform forensic analysis when problems do occur, and manage your service providers to their SLAs

The result is improved network performance, intelligent routed load balancing across multiple provider links, and easier troubleshooting.

Vastly Improved Network Routing Performance Metrics

Now you can guarantee the IP network performance required to support key applications. Based on its unique capability to measure the characteristics of end-to-end, real-time Internet traffic, the FCP solution improves network performance by 20-50% on average by:

• Automatically routing traffic around major network outages Managing the 20% of network issues such as IP network brownouts and slowdowns that cause the 80% of application issues that impact revenue and productivity
• Proactively identify and choose the best performing path for your traffic at all times Providing routing based on priority or cost savings for key applications

Intelligent Routing over IP Networks

The FCP solution's unparalleled measurement capability gives you better performance, fewer network incidents, sophisticated load balancing and easier troubleshooting. This enables successful deployment of applications such as e-commerce, CRM, hosting, trading/clearing and all real-time traffic such as VoIP, video and collaboration. The FCP solution ensures that you maximize the potential of your productivity and revenue impacting IT investments.

Intelligent, Measurement-Based Network Load Balancing

With the FCP solution, you use real traffic to measure round-trip performance and then balance a combination of competing cost and performance metrics to determine optimal routes. The FCP solution gives you the tools you need to manage your network connections more effectively. Through an interactive tool, you input information about your carrier contracts such as cost per MB and burst capability. The FCP solution will then manage that link to ensure the best traffic mix. These tools will allow you to:

• Manage network costs more effectively
• Fully utilize network infrastructure
• Simultaneously optimize for cost and performance
• Ensure you and the carrier are in contract compliance

Greater Network Routing and Troubleshooting Control

By pinpointing problems in minutes, the FCP solution enables you to:

• Perform forensic analysis when issues do occur Isolate network, user and application issues and put an end to finger pointing
• Reduce help desk calls and quickly resolve issues that do arise

The FCP solution continually monitors destinations of high interest and then measures round-trip performance and collects performance data to support network design, analysis and traffic engineering.

Manage Your Providers, Allocate Costs

The FCP solution gives you concrete performance data to enforce SLAs as well as restructure and renegotiate service provider contracts. In addition, a rich set of reports allows you to intelligently manage your network and communicate network performance and utilization across stakeholders. As a result, you can:

• Better allocate costs to departments and business units by knowing who is using which applications and how much bandwidth
• Provide internal SLAs
• Improve keynote scores
• Highlight reports on performance for your most critical applications