[112625] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Redundant Array of Inexpensive ISP's?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (chris.ranch@nokia.com)
Wed Mar 11 13:32:02 2009
From: <chris.ranch@nokia.com>
To: <dholmes@mwdh2o.com>, <tim@tetro.net>, <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:31:26 +0100
In-Reply-To: <485ED9BA02629E4BBBA53AC892EDA50E08901FC4@usmsxt104.mwd.h2o>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Yes and no.
Yes, in that it does best path selection, no in that it does not use BGP, s=
ince low cost assumes DSL or cable, over which I've never seen BGP deployed=
. This class of device assumes an appliance at each end. Performance data=
is collected, compression and load balancing techniques applied, and a sum=
total improvement of capacity and reliability is achieved.
If you notice similarity between Talari and Route Science, they both do cov=
er the same field and by several of the same people. Also, there are sever=
al producers of BGP route selectors, netVMG (now FCP at InterNAP), Proficie=
nt Networks (InfiniRoute) and Cisco's follow-on product.
I have no direct experience with Talari appliances.
Chris
>The Talari device appears to operate like the old Routescience=20
>Pathcontrol BGP load balancer circa 2002=
