Business people often believe that in order to have a reliable system, you need reliable components. Using reliable components to build your network certainly helps, but it’s not essential. The task of an engineer is building a reliable whole out of less...
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. So when buying transit service from ISPs A and B, your BGP router will send ISP A’s BGP updates to ISP B...
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 congested or affected by routing anomalies. Noction IRP overcomes these drawbacks and is currently deployed in...
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 accomplish efficient traffic flow, a packet must traverse reliable paths through several network nodes,...
Inter-domain traffic engineering aims to optimize traffic performance, originating and terminating in different administrative domains. At the moment, Autonomous Systems exchange traffic via exterior gateway protocols, the standard one being BGP [BGP4]. BGP offers a...
