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NANOG Meeting Presentation Abstract

Measuring Network Convergence on Production Networks
Meeting: NANOG59
Date / Time: 2013-10-07 4:00pm - 4:30pm
This item is webcast
Room: Akimel Ballroom 3 & 4
Presenters: Speakers:

Laris Benkis, Third Planet Networks

Laris Benkis is a network consultant based in Ottawa Canada. His areas of expertise are large-scale service provider network architecture and lawful intercept. He has made significant contributions to the backbone networks of several large Canadian service providers. He is also reputed to be one of the world's worst poker players.
Abstract: A blind spot in current IP network monitoring is the actual convergence time of a network after a failure. Monitoring technology today can tell you how the network performs in steady state, not how quickly it becomes usable after a failure. This can be measured, but it is a manual process and is service impacting on a production network. So, if a network operator takes the trouble to do this measurement it is likely only done once or twice or, at best, infrequently.

A technique which exercises the signalling and forwarding planes of an IP network to measure the total network response to a routing change will be presented. The process is automated and is not service impacting so the baseline performance of a network can be measured and tracked. The technique can be applied to any routing protocol or combination of protocols so has wide applicability to operators of networks where service levels are critical.
Files: pdfMeasuring Network Convergence on Production Networks (PDF)
youtubeMeasuring Network Convergence on Production Networks
Sponsors: None.

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