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.

How to Use MPLS Ping and Traceroute

September 17, 2014 Johnny Bass Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

With Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) as popular as it is in the provider space and private MPLS clouds for larger enterprise, we needed some tools to help troubleshoot and maintain these networks. With the providers in mind, the normal ping or traceroute may not be enough.