Re: Internap route optimization

[chip <chip.gwyn () gmail com>]

Just to be clear, Internap's solution doesn't use "more specifics" to steer
traffic.  The mechanisms in place to protect yourself from normal route
leaking should apply just the same.

--chip


On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 5:01 AM, Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists () gmail com>
wrote:

> Also, please, if you use one of this sort of device filter your
> prefixes toward your customers/peers/transits... Do not be the next
> person to leak their internap-box-routes to the world, m'kay? :)
>
> On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 8:53 PM, Fred Hollis <fred () web2objects com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > No particular experience with Internaps optimization...however I
> wouldn't be
> > that sure if I would use it within our networks, because you always have
> the
> > conflict of this not being their core business as they want to sell their
> > optimized IP transit.
> >
> > However, some time ago we tried Border6 in an evaluation and then finally
> > put it into production. Not only the optimization is nice, but the
> reporting
> > is so extremely detailed making it very transparent where the transit has
> > congestion issues and which prefix is routed (in and out) through which
> > upstream.
> >
> > For sure traffic engineering/optimization is not a trivial task but
> requires
> > deep thinking and understanding of the whole BGP and routing picture.
> >
> >
> > On 05.11.2015 at 09:03 Paras wrote:
> > > Does anyone know or have any experience with Internap's route
> > > optimization? Is it any good?
> > >
> > > I've heard of competing solutions as well, such as the one provided by
> > > Noction.
> > >
> > > Thanks for your input,
> > > Paras



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