Thanks to the virtually infinite bandwidth of fiber—or rather, the empty tubes that can hold multi-fiber cables—the Internet has continued to get faster for almost four decades, with congestion only ...

Internet connectivity issues this week which saw many sites become unreachable were caused by a sudden spike in announcements of traffic routes between networks, which in turn pushed core routers over ...

This traffic includes Internet traffic that needs to continue following the default route. At our Internet border we have either one or two Internet circuits. If there are two circuits, they are from ...

PRINCETON, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--RtBrick has set a new benchmark in Internet routing, delivering route convergence on a disaggregated network that is at least as fast as anything seen on traditional ...

Just this last week several customers have ironically all asked me the exact same question. “Can we use an Ethernet switch instead of a router for our Internet EBGP peering to our ISP(s)?” While ...

The good news is that the Internet's behaving itself today. The bad news is that by November we will see another burst of Internet slowdowns and sites becoming unavailable as we did on August 12. Here ...

Here’s our list of the biggest security incidents involving the Internet’s core routing protocol, the Border Gateway Protocol. Some of these incidents were attacks; others were accidental ...

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