If you found your Internet speed has been pathetic today and some sites wouldn't load at all, you're not alone. Many tier-one Internet service providers (ISPs), and in turn, the last mile ISPs they ...

The good news is that the Internet's behaving itself today. The bad news is that by November we will see another burst of Internet slowdowns and sites becoming unavailable as we did on August 12. Here ...

This traffic includes Internet traffic that needs to continue following the default route. At our Internet border we have either one or two Internet circuits. If there are two circuits, they are from ...

As an incident that we reported on last week shows, the Internet routing system isn't as secure as we want it to be. But how bad is it really? Let's start with a very short introduction into Internet ...

Just this last week several customers have ironically all asked me the exact same question. “Can we use an Ethernet switch instead of a router for our Internet EBGP peering to our ISP(s)?” While ...

Internet access is becoming more and more critical for handling everyday business. To ensure Internet redundancy and optimum performance, organizations may want to consider implementing BGP ...

PRINCETON, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--RtBrick has set a new benchmark in Internet routing, delivering route convergence on a disaggregated network that is at least as fast as anything seen on traditional ...

A flood of updates to databases inside Internet routers caused intermittent outages on Wednesday and connectivity issues for companies, but experts expect the long-forecasted hiccup to be resolved ...

Got into a what could have been a heated argument today with one of the guys at work. For various reasons I chose not to escalate the discussion, but rather decided to ask you guys. We have a Cisco ...

Joel is an internationally recognized expert in the areas of security, networking and messaging. Follow him on X (formerly Twitter) @joelsnyder. If switching is critical to the enterprise, routing is ...