Benefits Of Ip Service Level Agreements; Measuring Network Performance With Ip Service Level Agreements - Cisco ASR 9000 Serie Configuration Manuals

Benefits of IP Service Level Agreements

Benefits of IP Service Level Agreements
This table lists the benefits of implementing IP SLA.
Table 21: List of Benefits for IP SLA
Benefit
IP SLA monitoring
Network performance monitoring
IP service network health assessment
Troubleshooting of network operation

Measuring Network Performance with IP Service Level Agreements

IP SLA uses generated traffic to measure network performance between two networking devices, such as
routers.
a generated packet to the destination device. After the destination device receives the packet and if the operation
uses an IP SLA component at the receiving end (for example, IP SLA Responder), the reply packet includes
information about the delay at the target device. The source device uses this information to improve the
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Figure 4: IP SLA Operations, on page 201
Implementing IP Service Level Agreements
Description
Provides service level agreement monitoring,
measurement, and verification.
Measure the jitter, latency, or packet loss in the
network. In addition, IP SLA provides continuous,
reliable, and predictable measurements along with
proactive notification.
Verifies that the existing QoS is sufficient for the new
IP services.
Provides consistent, reliable measurement that
immediately identifies problems and saves
troubleshooting time.
shows how IP SLA starts when the IP SLA device sends