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 expected shape of well behaved traffic. It is increasingly useful to pass and make use of such information upstream...
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 coming up with the right configuration and then calling it a day. One of the trickiest aspects of...
One given in the network world is that bandwidth will increase. So that Gigabit Ethernet link that provided bandwidth to spare a year ago may be insufficient today. The simple solution is to upgrade to a faster link. In the Ethernet world this would mean a jump from 1...
The past few weeks we’ve discussed the main BGP path attributes: the next hop, the AS path, the MED. We also covered the community attribute last year. Today, we’re going to look at some of the lesser-known attributes. The Internet Assigned Numbers...
In many online games, very good network performance is a prerequisite for satisfactory gameplay. However, there are many kinds of games, and their networking needs differ. First of all, there’s the games that run locally with no online component, such as Angry...
