Segment Routing was supposed to make MPLS easier and give more power to network operators. Sadly, vendors decided to make it harder by selling weird protocols and over-engineered controller bloatware.…
MPLS is such a user-friendly technology it needs a special label that does nothing.
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My recent post about Anycast in Segment Routing led to an interesting argument on whether other MPLS transport protocols can do anycast routing.…
MPLS or Anycast Routing – for a long time, you had to choose one. Segment Routing allows you to have both.…
In highload cloud networks there is so much traffic that even 100G/400G port speeds do not suffice, so sharing the load over multiple links is the only feasible solution.
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PE-CE routing in MPLS L3VPN is an important topic which confuses a lot of people. Thanks to EVPN, it is now used not only in ISP but also DC networks.
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Fast convergence after failures has always been an important part of ISP network design.
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This story is about the importance of remembering networking fundamentals when dealing with advanced routing topics.
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