Routing data around the Internet has never been an easy task. With so much traffic permeating the net, choosing the right path to move data from point A to point B is becoming a real challenge. And ...

I'm looking for some edge devices. They must be Cisco, by company decree. I'm fine with internal switching/routing and MPLS and basic T1 and such, but I'm a bit weak when it comes to BGP and current ...

I have two WAN routers, each connected to a separate ISP. I'm advertising 200.200.200.0/24 over BGP to both. My AS is 200200. Both of these WAN routers are connected to a switch fabric with my LAN ...

Alexander Slagg is a freelance writer specializing in technology and education. He is an ongoing contributor to the CDW family of magazines. While BGP’s importance may be obscured among the numerous ...

Colorado Springs, Colo. – Packet Design Inc. has added support for the Border Gateway Protocol to its Route Explorer 2.0 package, extending the router analysis tool across multiple autonomous ...

The Internet wasn’t built with security in mind; it was built with communication in mind. In the same way Tina Turner wailed that love is nothing but “a secondhand emotion,” security is an Internet ...

Comcast, one of America's largest broadband providers, has now deployed RPKI on its network to defend against BGP route hijacks and leaks. BGP route hijacks is a networking problem that occurs when a ...

Just in time for Mobile World Congress (MWC), IP Infusion has expanded its network operating system OcNos with a view to powering AI data center fabric efficiency through open networks.

Cisco has patched a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability that lets attackers crash the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) process on IOS XR routers with a single BGP update message. IOS XR runs on the ...