Paragon Active Assurance is a programmable, active testing and monitoring solution for physical, hybrid, and virtual networks. It uses active, synthetic traffic to verify performance throughout the lifecycle of each application and service, providing real-time service quality measurements across multiple technology domains.

Key Features

Active Testing and Monitoring Utilizes software-based test agents to generate real-world packets on the data plane

• Measures service quality in real time across multiple applications and services
• Provides Layer 2-7 active measurements across physical and multicloud networks

Automation and Integration Enables seamless integration with existing network infrastructure

• Offers REST APIs and YANG models for integration with network controllers and service orchestrators
• Supports automatic discovery and registration of test agents with the control center

Flexible Deployment Options Adaptable to various network environments and use cases

• Can be deployed as a virtual machine, container application, or software appliance
• Available as a securely hosted SaaS in AWS or for on-premises installation

Benefits

Improved Service Quality Proactively identifies and resolves issues before they impact users

• Automatically validates correct service configuration and assesses impact of changes
• Improves resolution times by up to 50 percent

Enhanced Customer Satisfaction Ensures consistent service performance and reliability

• Enables delivery of differentiated service levels across 5G, cloud metro, and other networks
• Supports validation of network slice SLAs in 5G environments

Operational Efficiency Streamlines network management and troubleshooting processes

• Provides real-time visibility into network performance
• Supports network planning and simulation for optimized usage

Deployment Formats

• Virtual machine (VM) on a hypervisor
• Container application
• Software appliance on bare-metal x86 hardware
• Network device integration
• Standard PC installation
• USB device boot option