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BGP 101: An Introduction to the Border Gateway Protocol

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Paul Ferguson, Cisco

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Avi Freedman, Net Access

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Today's demand for backbone speed is outpacing conventional routing technologies. Projections show that the Internet will reach the terabit-per-second threshold in just a few years, and Internet Service Providers, especially backbone operators, will need to run networks using advanced routers that can support up to terabit performance. Conventional router manufacturers as well as other startups in the gigabit and terabit routing technology arena hope to rely simply on faster electronics. Although aggregate data rates of Internet traffic are skyrocketing, the bandwidth of individual communication sessions remains relatively small (in fact, this bandwidth cannot grow faster than the performance of host computers). Antonov believes that terabit-level aggregate routing capacity can be achieved by distributing the paths of packets in those connections between a large number of medium-performance routing engines interconnected using massively parallel packet routing architecture. Massively parallel routing technologies will transcend the power of conventional technology by as much as 4 orders of magnitude (10,000 times) by making large numbers of routing engines work in parallel.

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Vadim Antonov, Pluris
David Bernstein, Pluris

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K Claffy, NLANR

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Users and operators are increasingly demanding predictable and reliable network access server (NAS) solutions. Many NAS products were designed for the enterprise market, and cannot scale up to today's Internet. Some high-density NAS products were designed with Internet access in mind, but have exhibited various scalabilty and performance problems. Meanwhile, the user community and the general public have begun to pay attention to network performance - both backbone and access included. In this presentation, we will examine the architecture of existing NAS solutions and identify the performance and reliability implications of various design decisions. A new architecture will be presented as the next-generation of true carrier-class access service that promises to meet the performance and reliability requirements of business and large-scale consumer applications.

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Shuang Deng, Aptis

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Stan Barber, Academ Consulting Services

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Bill Norton, Merit
Ramesh Govindan, ISI
Cengiz Alaettinoglu, ISI
Dave Meyer, Univ. of Oregon
Curtis Villamizar, ANS
Carol Orange, RIPE
Sandy Murphy, TIS

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Exchange Point Providers Jay Adelson, Digital Internet Exchange (PAIX) Steve Feldman, WorldCom (MAE-East, MAE-West) Steve Ellis, PacBell End Users/Researchers Richard Newcomb, PathOne Communications Tung-Hui-Hu, Arcfour ISPs Dennis Simpson, Barrie Connex John Brown, iHighway.net

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Bill Norton, Merit, moderator

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Kim Hubbard, ARIN

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Paul Vixie, Vixie Enterprises