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AWS App Mesh vs Google Istio Service Mesh
January 4, 2019
The idea of a “service mesh” has become increasingly popular over the last couple of years and the number of alternatives available has risen. There are four open-source products available today: (i) Linkerd (sponsored by Buoyant). It was built on
BGP Open-Source Tools – Quagga vs. BIRD vs. ExaBGP
September 4, 2018
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
Arista Networks Introduces 1RU X3 Series Ethernet Switches
April 5, 2018
Arista Networks just introduced 7050X3 and 7260X3 platforms, which function on lower power, yet deliver a tenfold increase in performance of switching and routing. Both new platforms have double the capacity of the previous iterations, 7050X and 72600, developed only
BGP Hijack By Russian AS Impacts Google, Facebook and Apple
January 3, 2018
In mid-December, network monitoring service BGMON reported on a BGP hijack for numerous high profile organizations, including Google, Facebook, Apple and Twitter, meaning that their incoming and outgoing traffic was briefly routed through a previously unknown Russian Internet provider. BGPMON
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 Most protocols were originally designed based on now outdated and constrained software and hardware environment assumptions.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
CloudFlare Introduces Argo Virtual Backbone
Rachel Kempf
June 2, 2017
Cloudflare is attempting to take on the problem of routing optimization with the rollout of Argo, a virtual backbone for the Internet that leverages the information gathered from its global PoPs to dramatically improve performance. With Argo’s released in mid-May, Cloudflare