The Internet routing security story of the past decade has largely been about fixing route origins. RPKI Route Origin Validation (ROV) gave operators a cryptographic way to verify that the AS announcing a prefix was actually authorized to do so....
In general, oversubscription is a subscription for more than what is available. Oversubscription represents an intentional business model and is a widespread...
There is a lot of confusion around the 95th percentile bandwidth metering. Therefore this blog posting is intended to provide you with detailed information...
As 2021 approaches, we thought it's a good time to look back at all the important milestones we've achieved in 2020. Moreover, we wanted to thank all of you,...
A while ago, RIPE Labs published the two-part article BGP Communities - A Weapon for the Internet. That may have been a bit of a shock for those of us making...
Network professionals count on NFA when monitoring and analyzing traffic, controlling bandwidth utilization, gaining insights into potential security issues,...
Noction Flow Analyzer is a flow-based monitoring and reporting software tool that collects, stores, and presents traffic data across an entire network. NFA...
NetFlow is a great way to gather traffic statistics from your network. With Noction Flow Analyzer, you can view all your NetFlow data in a clear and...
Network flow monitoring is an essential tool for a lot of network administrators. Flow monitoring allows you to collect and record all IP traffic going to and...
As a router gains more and more BGP neighbors, two issues arise. The first one is that with many neighbors, whenever the router needs to send out a BGP...
Update: Tier 1 carriers performance March 3rd - April 6thUpdate: Noction Intelligent Routing Platform performance results This is yet another COVID-19 related...
In this blog post we’ll be looking at BGP errors. For that, our first question should be: is there an error, or is everything working? To determine this, we...
Like other very successful protocols such as HTTP and DNS, over the years BGP has been given more and more additional jobs to do. In this blog post, we’ll...