Unboxing Canada’s newest Supercomputer
27,000 Intel cores. 190 Terabytes of ram.
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.
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
BGP Confederations
BGP confederation is a method to use Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) to subdivide a single autonomous system (AS) into multiple internal sub-AS’s
The problem with peering from a logistics standpoint
Many ISPs run into this problem as part of their growing pains. This scenario usually starts happening with their third or 4th peer.
Transit, peer, upstream. What do they all mean?
As you dive into the realm of BGP, you will hear many terms in regards to peers. Knowing their names AND your definition of them will serve you well.
BGP communities and traffic engineering
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.