North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Outbound Route Optimization
On Jan 21, 2004, at 3:27 PM, Jim Devane wrote: Hello,BGP makes no decisions based on "quality" of a route. If you are using anything that's dependent on low latency/packet loss/jitter (eg, VoIP, games, ssh for someone who gets annoyed by >20ms of latency, etc), there's lots of room for improvement, especially when you are buying from "bargain" transit's. Everyone I know who's used a device like Sockeye, Route Science, etc, falls into one of two categories. 1) For reasons unrelated to them owning said device, I consider them to be generally lacking clue. 2) They hated it. I've never used one myself, but based on testimonials like that, I'd tend to say that they generally don't work too well. If you hire a consultant who knows what they're doing, it should be pretty simple to set up a meaningful routing policy which does this for you. Just my $0.02 --Phil Rosenthal ISPrime, Inc.
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