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Joe Harris, CCIE No. 6200 (R&S, Security & SP) is a Systems Engineer with Cisco Systems® specializing in Security. In addition to authoring Cisco Network Security Little Black Book, Joe has also been a technical reviewer for several Cisco Press publications and written articles, white papers, and presentations on various security technologies. He also assists various Certification Partners by beta testing their newest CCIE certification workbooks and has been recognized by Cisco as an SE Wall of Fame award winner.

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Performance Routing

December 14th, 2007 • Related • Filed Under

Performance Routing complements traditional routing technologies by using the intelligence of a Cisco IOS Software infrastructure to improve application performance and availability. 

Performance Routing improves application performance by enabling a performance-aware infrastructure that selects the best path across the network. Network performance criteria such as application reachability, delay, loss, jitter, and Mean Opinion Score (MOS) help select the best path based on application requirements. By continuously measuring these network performance characteristics, Performance Routing can improve application availability by dynamically routing around performance problems in the network. 

The current implementation of Performance Routing provides best path optimization and advanced load balancing of traffic over the WAN and to the Internet for enterprise networks with multiple paths. Advanced load balancing capabilities can save networking costs through higher link utilization and better cost management of service provider networks. 

Performance Routing uses embedded IOS intelligence and does not require additional equipment for implementation. Find out more about Peformance Routing and how your network can benfit from it at the following location:

http://www.cisco.com/go/pfr

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