Internap route optimization

Thu Nov 5 10:05:00 UTC 2015

Totally right! That's why I wrote

 >> 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 11:01 Christopher Morrow 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 at 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
>>>
>>