Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is a routing protocol that is used to exchange routing and reachability information between autonomous systems (ASes) on the Internet. BGP is designed to be used in large-scale network environments and is used by many organizations
Load balancers play a critical role in helping enterprises scale internet infrastructure. At the most basic level, load balancers ingest incoming internet traffic, then distributes the load across server infrastructure, as was the case when Google helped Niantic launch Pokémon
Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is the lifeblood of the Internet. At the most basic level, routers share network information between autonomous systems. It was designed by “Yakov Rekhter of IBM and Kirk Lougheed of Cisco” in 1989. As of August
Recently in the news, two networking startups have made big announcements. DriveNets is aiming to disrupt the CSP (communication service provider) market, where network architecture hasn’t changed much in the last decade. Aviatrix Systems is aiming to disrupt the cloud
Introduction to Maglev Maglev is Google’s custom network load balancer, which is used within all its data centers and operates at the distributed packet-level. Google is of course a significant source of global Internet traffic, which provides hundreds of user-facing
Last week, Nature Communications published a paper on a new device that promises to effectively utilize fiber optics in order to dramatically influence the future of the Internet, making Internet speeds 100x faster than today. Australia’s RMIT university of technology
eBay announced last week that it has been custom-building its own servers in order to replatform and bring up to date its backend infrastructure; and following the lead of Facebook, the eCommerce giant will be open-sourcing its designs. The open
The router market is largely controlled by the big vendors like Cisco and Juniper that spend a lot of time and money developing a rich feature set, mainly routing protocols. However, there are also multiple open-source BGP routing stacks in
Microsoft has decided to open source the code behind ONE, the system that emulates the global network powering the Azure cloud to help reduce network outages. What is ONE or the Open Network Emulator? The system is called the Open
Cato Networks was founded in Tel Aviv, Israel in 2015 by Shlomo Kramer, a co-founder of Imperva and cybersecurity/gear firm Check Point and Guy Shatz, a co-founder of Incapsula. The company’s initial focus was on launching its Network Security as
This post looks at Google’s QUIC and the PacketZoom Mobile Expresslane and how its two protocols differ; after starting with a summary of the existing Internet protocols and why there is a need for change. Challenges with packet delivery over
Today we are going to do a deep dive into Mode’s autonomous private network, following on from our post last month about their exiting from stealth and announcing Mode Core. Co-founders Dr. Nithin Michael (now CTO) and Dr. Kevin Tang
For some time, Facebook has had its sights set on the legacy telecom hardware industry and has been investing in a raft of projects worldwide to blow it open and double down on expensive and second-rate connectivity. Last week, we
Back in 2011, a controversial idea was brought to the table inside Facebook. Over the next seven years, it has turned the $178 billion data center computer hardware industry upside down. By open-sourcing its hardware via its Open Compute Project
Mode, a networking startup based in San Francisco, has exited from stealth and announced Mode Core, the first software-defined core network (SD-CORE) optimized for any SD-WAN deployment. Mode Core is designed to be used in combination with SD-WAN and last-mile
