Increase bandwidth usage in partial-mesh network?
Raymond Burkholder
ray at oneunified.net
Thu Oct 14 06:01:14 UTC 2021
On 10/13/21 11:29 AM, Adam Thompson wrote:
> I've got a downstream customer asking for help; they have a private
> internal network that I've taken to calling the "partial-mesh network
> from hell": it's got two partially-overlapping radio networks, mixed
> with islands of isolated fiber connectivity.
> Dynamic routing protocols (IS-IS, OSPF, EIGRP, etc.) generally will
> only select the _best_ path, they won't spread the load unless all
> paths are equal - and they are very unequal in this network, ECMP
> would likely fail horribly.
> The network is becoming bandwidth-limited, so they're wanting to make
> use of all available paths, not just the single "best" path. It's
> also remote and spread out, so adding new links or upgrading existing
> links is difficult and expensive.
> Oh, and their routers are overdue for a refresh, so acquiring
> replacement h/w is now possible.
>
> Has anyone come across any product or technology that can handle the
> multi-path-ness and the private-network-ness like a regular router,
> but also provides the intelligent per-flow path steering based on e.g.
> latency, like an SD-WAN device (and/or some firewalls)?
Maybe add a little bit of linear optimization on top of
faucet/openvswitch/openflow to calculate best paths based upon
bandwidth, paths, and fill-factors. There is a presentation where
Google uses that technique to obtain high utilization on their links
(not necessarily those tools though).
Raymond Burkholder
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