In networking, communication between devices relies on the efficient exchange of data packets. Among the essential elements in this exchange are the ACK (Acknowledgement) and NACK (Negative Acknowledgement) mechanisms. ACKs and NACKs are essential...
BGP Monitoring Protocol (BMP) is a protocol used for monitoring BGP sessions. It is defined in RFC 7854. Prior to BMP, network operators used router's CLI to...
This analysis covers widely used Tier 1 carriers performance results in the US for the month of June 2017. Rare datapoints from distant locations have not...
This article discusses BGP session culling techniques that mitigate a negative impact of maintenance of Internet Exchange Points (IXPs) on IP networks. IXP...
This analysis covers widely used Tier 1 carriers performance results in the US for the month of May 2017. Rare datapoints from distant locations have not been...
In this blog post we are going to explain how Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) tunnel might be used in a situation when the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)...
This analysis covers widely used Tier 1 carriers performance results in the US for the month of April 2017. Rare datapoints from distant locations have not...
This analysis covers widely used Tier 1 carriers performance results in the US for the month of March 2017. A new carrier, Hurricane Electric, has been added...
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...
