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BGP Open Source Tools: OpenBGPD, FRRouting, Xorp, Kube-Router, Vrnetlab, and ARTEMIS
Bizety Staff
June 11, 2020
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
Facebook Sonar Edge Architecture: Confining The Domain of BGP
January 4, 2018
Facebook relies on its network as an integral part of its overall infrastructure, and is continually innovating in order to provide high performance standards amidst continual growth. As of the third quarter of 2017, Facebook had 2.07 billion monthly active
DDoS Landscape According to Fastly and Cloudflare
December 18, 2017
Fastly and Cloudflare both recently published end-of-year posts looking at the DDoS landscape as a whole. Both CDNs note the ways in which the DDoS landscape is evolving and the trend in increasingly sophisticated types of DDoS attack. Fastly’s position
Facebook Open Sources Open/R Routing Platform
November 21, 2017
New developments in routing usually require the careful extension of an existing protocol or the creation of new overlay extensions. Most protocols were originally designed based on now outdated and constrained software and hardware environment assumptions. To continue to deliver
Twitter Infrastructure Snapshot: Network Traffic, Data Centers and Hardware Efficiency
November 16, 2017
Over the last couple of years, Twitter has been posting a series of blogs on its infrastructure discussing how it reached its present scale of efficiency in its hardware and data centers to maximize uptime as the business scaled in
Why Cato Networks Decided Against BGP In Building Its Cloud Network
Ernie
June 4, 2017
We’re starting a new series on Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), the routing protocol of the Internet. When it comes to BGP, service providers live and die by it. However, there are some divergents who don’t like BGP and decided against
Will Google Abandon BGP Next Year and The Four Giants Will Follow
Ernie
May 22, 2017
Google doesn’t play by the same set of rules that ISP’s, Carriers, CDN’s, and others play by. Sometime next year, will Google abandon BGP once and for all within their core? To date, Google has the largest private network in
The Next Era of Internet Routing – Content Delivery Internet Routing 2.0 and 3.0
Ernie
May 21, 2017
Traditional content delivery Internet routing and Overlay Networks are history. A couple of companies have introduced new ways to route Internet traffic based on intelligent SDN-based software, and it’s a game changer. In some cases, the software replaces traditional BGP
CloudFlare Railgun Reduces Round-trip Latency
Amber F
January 12, 2016
Connection Pooling and Late Binding to Reduce Roundtrip Latency A common concern in routing is determining how to obtain minimal roundtrip latency to a remote server. To control the number of concurrently established connections and avoid setup costs, connections are