Routing data around the Internet has never been an easy task. With so much traffic permeating the net, choosing the right path to move data from point A to point B is becoming a real challenge. And ...

I'm looking for some edge devices. They must be Cisco, by company decree. I'm fine with internal switching/routing and MPLS and basic T1 and such, but I'm a bit weak when it comes to BGP and current ...

Colorado Springs, Colo. – Packet Design Inc. has added support for the Border Gateway Protocol to its Route Explorer 2.0 package, extending the router analysis tool across multiple autonomous ...

I have two WAN routers, each connected to a separate ISP. I'm advertising 200.200.200.0/24 over BGP to both. My AS is 200200. Both of these WAN routers are connected to a switch fabric with my LAN ...

The Internet wasn’t built with security in mind; it was built with communication in mind. In the same way Tina Turner wailed that love is nothing but “a secondhand emotion,” security is an Internet ...

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 ...

A couple of hours before folks on the east coast could see this past Wednesday's sunrise, some found themselves battling to get webpages to load, or found themselves without Internet entirely. It'd be ...

This spring, services from heavy hitters like Google and Facebook seemed glitchy or inaccessible for people worldwide for more than an hour. But it wasn't a hack, or even a glitch at any one ...

Attackers are using route injection attacks against BGP-speaking routers to insert additional hops in the traffic stream, redirecting traffic to third-party locations where it can be inspected before ...