Regional AS model

Thu Mar 24 22:17:03 UTC 2011

Le jeudi 24 mars 2011 à 14:26 -0700, Bill Woodcock a écrit :
> On Mar 24, 2011, at 1:47 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
> > On Mar 24, 2011, at 3:40 PM, Owen DeLong wrote:
> >> On Mar 24, 2011, at 12:42 PM, Zaid Ali <zaid at zaidali.com> wrote:
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> >>> I have seen age old discussions on single AS vs multiple AS for backbone and datacenter design. I am particularly interested in operational challenges for running AS per region e.g. one AS for US, one EU etc or I have heard folks do one AS per DC. I particularly don't see any advantage in doing one AS per region or datacenter since most of the reasons I hear is to reduce the iBGP mesh. I generally prefer one AS  and making use of confederation. 
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> >> If you have good backbone between the locations, then, it's mostly a matter of personal preference. If you have discreet autonomous sites that are not connected by internal circuits (not VPNs), then, AS per site is greatly preferable.
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> > We disagree.
> > Single AS worldwide is fine with or without a backbone.
> > Which is "preferable" is up to you, your situation, and your personal tastes. 
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> We're with Patrick on this one.  We operate a single AS across seventy-some-odd locations in dozens of countries, with very little of what an eyeball operator would call "backbone" between them, and we've never seen any potential benefit from splitting them.  I think the management headache alone would be sufficient to make it unattractive to us.
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>                                 -Bill
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Right. I think that a single AS is most often quite fine. I think our
problem space is rather about how you organise the routing in your AS.
Flat, route-reflection, confederations? How much policing between 
regions do you feel that you need? In some scenarios, I think 
confederations may be a pretty sound replacement of the multiple-AS
approach. Policing iBGP sessions in a route-reflector topology? Limits?
Thoughts?

Cheers,

mh

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