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ActiveMesh – ECMP Active-Active Full Mesh Network HA
Aviatrix secure network transit is designed with active-
active high-availability and redundant pathing. Pairs of
Aviatrix Gateways, deployed in separate availability zones,
establish a full mesh, multi-path connection that
maximizes both throughput performance and network
availability.
Deterministic and Optimal Path Selection
ActiveMesh allows gateways to take BGP metrics such as
MED, AS-PATH into consideration for the same route from
different neighbors and use that to make the optimal path
selection. The path selection algorithm is prescriptive and
provides significant flexibility options for multi-region
designs. For example, allowing for on-prem route
manipulation setting preference for between neighbors in
different regions.
Asymmetric Routing and Loop Avoidance
To support multi-region HA, both on prem data centers
advertise the same routes into multiple regions through
the cloud access layer into each of the Aviatrix Transit
gateways. Overlapping CIDRs heard by Aviatrix Transit
gateways in both regions are advertised over the transitive
peering connection to the other region's transit pair. This
would normally cause serious asymmetric routing or
routing loop challenges. However, the Aviatrix Controller,
by default, has the intelligence to ensure the local region
route is preferred over the transitive peering route,
avoiding any loops or asymmetric issues.
Aviatrix CoPilot Visualization Platform
Aviatrix CoPilot provides a global operational view of your
multi-cloud network not available from AWS, Azure or any
other cloud provider. Enterprise IT teams – who need day-
two operational visibility for cloud networking – use
CoPilot's dynamic topology mapping to maintain an
accurate view of their global multi-cloud networks, FlowIQ
to analyze global network traffic flows and global heat
maps and time series trend charts to easily pinpoint and
troubleshoot traffic anomalies. CoPilot leverages the
intelligence and advanced network and security services
delivered by the Aviatrix cloud network platform. With
Aviatrix, cloud network and security operations teams
have familiar day-two operational capabilities such as
packet capture, trace route and ping to resolve problems
faster. Operational features include resource tagging,
resource clustering, infrastructure monitoring and alerting,
all specifically built for multi-cloud network operations.
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Online Documentation: docs.aviatrix.com
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About the Author
Tomasz Klimczyk is a Principal Solutions
Architect at Aviatrix based in
Barcelona, Spain. Tomasz is available to
work with customers across Europe.
Tomasz can be reached at
[email protected]
