I cannot honestly imagine troubleshooting BGP without understanding the BGP table version. I use it all the time. Sometimes it is just a quick “eyeballing” of it to check to see if all the BGP table ...

There are a range of varying claims to BGP visibility or monitoring out there, terms which are themselves quite vague As the routing protocol that runs the Internet, Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is a ...

Internet access is becoming more and more critical for handling everyday business. To ensure Internet redundancy and optimum performance, organizations may want to consider implementing BGP ...

Alexander Slagg is a freelance writer specializing in technology and education. He is an ongoing contributor to the CDW family of magazines. While BGP’s importance may be obscured among the numerous ...

For more than an hour at the beginning of April, major sites like Google and Facebook sputtered for large swaths of people. The culprit wasn't a hack or a bug. It was problems with the internet data ...

What if the internet you rely on every day wasn’t as seamless as it seems? What if hidden inefficiencies were quietly disrupting traffic, slowing connections, and wasting resources? In this guide, ...

Comcast, one of America's largest broadband providers, has now deployed RPKI on its network to defend against BGP route hijacks and leaks. BGP route hijacks is a networking problem that occurs when a ...

This is the 2nd post in the 3 part series of “Understanding the BGP Table Version”. Please visit http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/80089 to review part 1 ...