Performance metrics used in commercial BGP route optimizers

Tom Beecher beecher at beecher.cc
Tue Jul 16 13:23:11 UTC 2019


The most important metric for a BGP optimizer is how much it physically
weighs. That way you'll know if you can carry it to the trash pile
yourself, or need to get help so you don't hurt your back.

:)

On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 9:21 AM Ryan Hamel <Ryan.Hamel at quadranet.com> wrote:

> The answers which you seek would be considered secret sauce to these
> vendors.
>
> But you can start at running MTRs through a VRF per carrier only
> containing a default route, and looking at the results.
>
> Ryan
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 6:11 AM -0700, "Dimeji Fayomi" <
> oof1 at students.waikato.ac.nz> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>> I'm doing a research on BGP route optimisation and the performance
>> metrics used by commercial route optimizer appliances to select better path
>> to a prefix.
>>
>> I would appreciate any information about the performance metrics used in
>> commercial BGP route optimizers, white papers or any other document that
>> describes how these metrics are measured and collected by commercial route
>> optimizers.
>>
>> Thanks
>> --
>> Dimeji Fayomi
>>
>
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