Recent disruptions to two undersea internet cables in the Baltic Sea have yet again highlighted a pressing issue for businesses worldwide: the vulnerabilities inherent in our global communications infrastructure. These incidents, occurring amid...
Whether you are an experienced network administrator or you have just started to learn Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), Looking Glass (LG) is definitely a topic...
Slack is a great communication platform that simplifies and streamlines day-to-day operations of various teams around the world. Integrating the tools that...
This analysis covers widely used Tier 1 carriers performance results in the US for the month of February 2017. Infrequent datapoints such as data from Alaska...
The analysis covers Tier 1 carriers widely used by US networks. Datapoints that appear rarely, such as data from Alaska, or a single use of Verizon and/or...
In the previous post we wrote about using PeeringDB to find information about potential peers and obtain the peering details using the REST API with a simple...
As Noction continues to intelligently optimize routing for more and more networks around the world, we find ourselves in the unique position of having great...
At Noction, collecting and analyzing petabytes of data across all IRP instances worldwide offers us valuable data regarding overall Internet performance as...
When networks exchange traffic without having a customer-provider relationship, this is called peering. We've talked about peering in previous Noction blog...
When first starting out with BGP, the typical way to advertise a network's prefixes is using the network statement with a prefix filter and an AS path filter....
While networks are agnostic to the content of the serviced packets, end users have a very good understanding of what traffic they have and what is the...
In most cases, when you have multiple connections to multiple ISPs, you want to use both links side-by-side, with each handling a certain fraction of the...
Here on the Noction blog we've covered many aspects of using BGP to connect your network to the internet. However, often implementing BGP isn't as simple as...