Flow Control Platform (FCP)

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The FCP provides network performance management and monitoring for companies with redundant Internet connections. Without an FCP, Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is often the default routing mechanism, blindly routing data over connections based on the shortest amount of hops – a choice that frequently results in poor performance. The FCP takes a better approach. It proactively reviews your network(s) for the best performing route or the most cost-effective and routes according to your requirements. This will help improve both performance for your applications and the bottom line.

You can't manage what you can't measure. Most organizations have no way to measure performance across the Internet, no understanding of its performance impact, and no ability to manage it proactively. The FCP has built in tools and reports to show you exactly what is happening on your network today. 

Benefits of Network Performance Management

The Internap^® Flow Control Platform™ (FCP) solution gives you the ability to:

• Dynamically measure the end-to-end performance of your applications, including performance over the public Internet
• Quickly and easily establish policies to automatically 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 load balancing across multiple provider links, and easier troubleshooting.

Vastly Improved Performance – Freed From Manual Intervention

Now you can guarantee the IP network performance required to support key applications. No longer will the daily, and even hourly, variations in provider performance stall your business-critical applications. Based on its unique capability to measure the characteristics of end-to-end, real-time Internet traffic, the FCP solution improves network performance up to 50% on average by:

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

With the FCP solution, you improve customer satisfaction, increase productivity and allow engineers to focus on value-added activities.