Service providers and network professionals working with IP networks agree that Border Gateway Protocol is one of the most complex and difficult-to-configure internet protocols. However, its emphasis ...

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 ...

Border Gateway Protocol, or BGP, and Open Shortest Path First, or OSPF, are two of the most popular, standards-based dynamic routing protocols used around the world. Although BGP and OSPF are both ...

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 ...

Some networks had policies about the type of traffic they would carry. BGP was designed to allow network operators to make routing decisions based on the “policy” they wanted (or had) to use. Previous ...