Internet Architecture
Interconnection, peering, Data centers. How the Internet works. IXPs, transit, and other topics. Routing and Control Planes such as BGP and OSPF protocols. RPKI and IP resources are also covered.
Another BGP blunder.but not THAT one
Recently, there has been much talk about the Cloudflare BGP blunder and others. But did you know there was one involving the entire /12 of IPV6 space
Data Center Container Photo
This comes to us from https://www.deltapowersolutions.com/en/mcis/data-center-solutions-containerized-datacenter.php Data center in a box.
Data Center raised flooring
Looking to add some raised flooring to your data center? http://dcstands.com/ If you want to read about the great data center debate of raised vs slab flooring. https://switchon.eaton.com/plug/article/192/the-great-debate-raised-floor-vs-slab-data-ce https://blog.equinix.com/blog/2011/03/02/raised-floor-versus-slab-floor-the-debate-rages-on/ https://www.upsite.com/blog/slab-vs-raised-floor-3-things-consider/
Unboxing Canada’s newest Supercomputer
27,000 Intel cores. 190 Terabytes of ram.
The problem with speedtests
Imagine this scenario. Outside your house, the most awesome superhighway has been built. It has a speed limit of 120 Mile Per Hour. You calculate at those speeds you can get to and from work 20 minutes earlier. Life is good. Monday morning comes, you hop in your 600 horsepower Nissan GT-R, put on some … Read more
“Glue addresses” in networking
The glue address is the address that binds, aka glues, your network to another network
Noction: BGP in Large Networks
Using BGP in large scale networks and how to get the most out of it. Paper by Noction
FD-IX Explainer video on Internet Peering and exchanges
Explainer video about what an Internet exchange point (IXP) is and how peering works. Making the internet better through peering.
Remote Peering
Martin J. Levy from Cloudflare did a presentation about remote peering possibly being a bad thing. In this presentation, he brings up several valid points. https://www.globalpeeringforum.org/pastEvents/gpf14/presentations/Wed_2_MartinLevy_remote_peering_is_bad_for.pdf Some thoughts of my own. Yes, remote peering is happening. One thing touched upon is the layer3 vs layer2 traffic. We at MidWest-IX only allow remote peering at a … Read more
BGP Monitoring RFC 7854
This document defines the BGP Monitoring Protocol (BMP), which can be used to monitor BGP sessions.
How I learned to love BGP communities and so can you
For the purpose of part one of this article we will talk about communities and how they can be utilized for traffic coming into your network