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BGP Hijacking overview. Routing incidents prevention and defense mechanisms. (Updated)
BGP hijacking is an illicit process of taking control of a group of IP prefixes assigned to a potential victim. Either intentionally or accidentally,...
Bit Indexed Explicit Replication and the BGP Extensions for BIER
In this article we’ll take a look at the architecture for multicast forwarding called the Bit Indexed Explicit Replication or simply BIER. However, we’ll...
Tier 1 Carriers Performance Report: March, 2018
The report offers specific insights into the performance of major Internet Carriers for the month of March, 2018.
DDoS Amplification Attacks
A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack is an attack in which the multiple compromised devices attack a target and cause the denial of service for...
BGP/MPLS Layer 3 VPNs Practical Configuration
In our previous blog article we’ve discussed the benefits and the fundamental principles of BGP/MPLS L3 VPNs. We have covered the definition of the...
Tier 1 carrier performance report: February, 2018
The report is presented in a slightly different form from the previous ones. Besides the general analysis we have complemented it with data reflecting...
BGP / MPLS Layer 3 VPNs
What is VPN?
Virtual Private Networks (VPN) are designed to provide users with the private networks capabilities over a shared infrastructure. They connect remote sites...
Segment Routing and the SRv6 Network Programming
IPv6 Addressing
The Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) adoption is growing at pace. According to Google statistics, 22% of the users reach Google over IPv6...
Tier 1 carrier performance report: January, 2018
The report covers broadly used Tier 1 carriers performance results in the US and the general spread for the month of January 2018. For...
TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) Congestion Control
Network congestion may occur when a sender overflows the network with too many packets. At the time of congestion, the network cannot handle this...
