This is my first and probably going to be the only blog post talking about a NOG i.e a Network Operator Group. I usually do not talk about that here because NOG is supposed to be facilitating the work of…
Inefficient IGP can make eBGP go wild!
Lately, I have been struggling to keep latency in check between my servers in India and Europe. Since Nov 2021 multiple submarine cables are down impacting significant capacity between Europe & India. The impact was largely on Airtel earlier but…
Welcome to India Vultr!
Vultr has announced start of their Mumbai location on 12th of this month. It’s amazing to see them entering India. Always a good thing for growth of cloud computing on demand in India. Besides Vultr, we have got Amazon AWS,…
NIXI expansion & some thoughts
Background Lately, NIXI has been making a bit of news in the Indian peering ecosystem. NIXI for those who may not be aware is the National Internet Exchange of India. It was founded in 2003 with the idea to provide…
Redundancy on the servers without BGP
A developer friend recently asked me about the design of redundancy on servers. He had a valid point – running BGP can be tricky and expensive since most colo & datacenter host would offer simple static routing & usually with…