RouteScience released version 3.0 for its PathControl platform, which optimizes a company's multiple ISP links by providing real-time performance measurements of paths across the Internet to end users. Using these performance metrics and customer preferences for ISP link costs, RouteScience's PathControl platform determines the best ISP path for end-users and can then automatically update the organization's edge routers with the best path routing information. The new software can dynamically discover and measure performance from end to end, or from the data center to intermediate points near end users whenever full end-to-end performance measurement is not possible. Its PathControl platform can now show per prefix bandwidth utilization as well as generate detailed billing cycle reports for month to date usage, projected billing tiers, and total cost savings. The company said this extension of its measurement technology will accelerates the deployment of IP route optimization for all IP application traffic.
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- In July 2002, Google selected RouteScience's PathControl platform to enhance the performance and lower the bandwidth costs of its popular search engine. The companies said the RouteScience platform would help avoid Internet brownouts that result from excessive latency and loss.
RouteScience is led by Herb Madan, who previously was Vice President and General Manager, Service Provider Line of Business at Cisco Systems, and CEO and Co-Founder of Netsys Technologies (acquired by Cisco in 1996). The company's founding team also includes Jim McGuire, previously Senior Director of Engineering, Service Provider Line of Business at Cisco Systems and Co-Founder of Netsys, and Joel Evanier, previously Director of Enterprise Sales at Cisco Systems and Vice President of Sales at Netsys. The company's technical team also includes Mike Lloyd, who was the principal architect for the MPLS VPN provisioning system at Cisco Systems, and a senior engineer on BGP and other routing simulations.
