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How can FD-IX (or any IXP) improve your network?

March 10, 2026November 24, 2025 by j2sw

how can FD-IX or any IXP help your network?

Categories Network Operations Tags cdn, internet exchange, IX, IXP, peering, perfomance, transit

My Mum 2019 BGP presentation

March 15, 2026January 30, 2020 by j2sw

In this presentation, I talk about BGP communities, filters, and other cool BGP stuff.

Categories Network Operations Tags bgp, commumities, filters, peering, routing, transit

Hurricane Electric route table over 800,000 routes

March 15, 2026January 15, 2020 by j2sw

Had a Hurricane peer without any filtering or the like reach over 800,000 routes toda

Categories Internet Architecture Tags he.net, peering, routes, transit

FD-IX Explainer video on Internet Peering and exchanges

March 15, 2026June 8, 2019 by j2sw

Explainer video about what an Internet exchange point (IXP) is and how peering works.  Making the internet better through peering.

Categories Internet Architecture Tags bgp, exchange, fabric, internet, IX, peering, transit 1 Comment

How I learned to love BGP communities and so can you

March 15, 2026May 11, 2019 by j2sw

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

Categories Internet Architecture, Network Operations Tags bgp, Cisco, communties, juniper, mikrotik, peer, peering, routing, transit

Transit, peer, upstream. What do they all mean?

March 15, 2026May 4, 2019 by j2sw

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.

Categories Internet Architecture Tags bandwidth, bgp, peer, transit, upstream

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