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BGP in Large-Scale Data Centers
Large-scale data centers (DCs) connect hundreds of thousands or even more servers, having millions of users. Generally, every DC runs two kinds of applications....
Tier 1 carrier performance report: August, 2017
The current report covers widely used Tier 1 carriers performance results in the US for the month of August 2017. Rare datapoints from distant...
BGP LLDP Peer Discovery
Just like with the other routing protocols such as OSPF or EIGRP, BGP speaking routers first need to become neighbors prior to exchanging routing...
Tier 1 carrier performance report: July, 2017
The current report covers widely used Tier 1 carriers performance results in the US for the month of July 2017. Rare datapoints from distant...
The Number of the Beast or the Practical usage of the Blackhole Community
BGP blackhole filtering is a routing technique used to drop unwanted traffic. Black holes are placed in the parts of a network where unwanted...
BGP Monitoring Protocol and the BMP collectors implementation open-source project
BGP Monitoring Protocol (BMP) is a protocol used for monitoring BGP sessions. It is defined in RFC 7854. Prior to BMP, network operators used...
Tier 1 carrier performance: June, 2017 snapshot
This analysis covers widely used Tier 1 carriers performance results in the US for the month of June 2017. Rare datapoints from distant locations...
BGP Session Culling
This article discusses BGP session culling techniques that mitigate a negative impact of maintenance of Internet Exchange Points (IXPs) on IP networks. IXP represents...
BGP Hijacking overview. Routing incidents prevention and defense mechanisms.
BGP hijacking is an illicit process of taking control of a group of IP prefixes assigned to a potential victim. Either intentionally or accidentally,...
Tier 1 carrier performance: May, 2017 snapshot
This analysis covers widely used Tier 1 carriers performance results in the US for the month of May 2017. Rare datapoints from distant locations...
