How To Use BGP Prefix-Independent Convergence

September 30, 2014 Johnny Bass Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is a fascinating protocol because there are a lot of things that can be done with BGP. However, there has always been an issue with BGP, which is convergence (the time the network or protocol takes to accept change). BGP was designed for scale, not speed, so it’s something that we’ve had to tolerate from its inception.

What’s New With LDPv6 and Where We Are on the Updated Protocol

September 22, 2014 Johnny Bass Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

Now that IPv6 is progressing and being deployed more and more, there is a need for a change to the underlying infrastructure. Most providers today use MPLS as their core technology to support a vast number of services to their customers, including Layer 3 VPNs. Larger enterprise networks have also implemented MPLS within their own core in a private MPLS cloud.