Last week, Africa faced yet again a significant setback in its connectivity infrastructure, with multiple undersea cable failures causing widespread disruptions, particularly impacting South Africa, a key commercial hub on the continent. The...
At home, we pay an ISP to transport our packets to and from the rest of the world. Most organizations do the same. But once a network gets to a certain size,...
One thing we all learn quickly after getting started with BGP is that if left to its own devices, the protocol will happily propagate everything everywhere....
It’s common knowledge that Border Gateway Protocol has no ability to make performance-based routing decisions and often routes traffic through paths that are...
SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) is a standard protocol that network devices use to control each other and report critical information. The main...
There are several route optimization techniques applied to networks distinguished by a single routing domain. The traditional approach requires network...
Our customers ask repeatedly about the benefits IRP brings to their infrastructure. To address some of these questions we've compiled a few Overview Reports...
Conventional wisdom leads us to believe that interconnects between peering partners in an Exchange that is shorter will also be better than traditional links...
The typical fully-meshed iBGP configuration of routers can become very difficult to manage in large networks. Because of the increasing numbers of iBGP...
There are various techniques for optimizing traffic routing across multiple transit providers available in a network. However, there are some additional...
Nowadays, the Internet is made-up of more than 45,000 active Autonomous Systems (ASes), each with a different complexity level and specific configurations. To...
Inter-domain traffic engineering aims to optimize traffic performance, originating and terminating in different administrative domains. At the moment,...
Service Provider's customers want to know the time frames they can expect a response and resolution from the provider when they submit a request for support....