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ROA Fundamentals

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Blue Planet Route Optimization and Analysis (ROA) provides visibility into the IP/MPLS network control plane, where users can see exactly how specific traffic traverses the Layer 3 network. This page covers the fundamentals of how to use ROA.

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Blue Planet ROA Fundamentals: ROA Software Overview

This video provides an overview of the products that comprise Blue Planet ROA: Route Explorer, Traffic Explorer, Performance Explorer et al.

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Blue Planet ROA Fundamentals: Topology Map

The ROA Topology Map provides an overall view of the network, which helps visualize paths, view router status and links, spot outages, identify routing failures.

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Blue Planet ROA Fundamentals: Navigation

This short video walks you through the Blue Planet ROA software using the top navigation ribbon.

Use Blue Planet ROA to go back in time to find the cause of a network issue on a path between a Seattle and New York router.

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Blue Planet ROA Fundamentals: Context Pages

Learn about the different context pages that are available in Blue Planet ROA.

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Blue Planet ROA Fundamentals: Inspector Menu

Learn how to use the Blue Planet ROA Node and Link Inspector to search for paths, SSH to devices, and drill into different context pages.

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Blue Planet ROA Fundamentals: Highlighting Paths

Blue Planet ROA enables us to view the past changes and current state of the path to pinpoint the root cause of the issue.

Mini maps are an essential part of Blue Planet ROA context pages that help troubleshoot routing and path issues.

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