[185660] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Internap route optimization
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (chip)
Thu Nov 5 07:18:12 2015
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Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2015 07:18:08 -0500
From: chip <chip.gwyn@gmail.com>
To: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog list <nanog@nanog.org>
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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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Just my $.02, your mileage may vary, batteries not included, etc....
