ROCHESTER, N.Y. NextHop Technologies is unleashing a new rev of its GateD routing software package today (Jan. 21), labeled version 10.0, which includes support for a new application programming ...

Accepting that router control plane failures will occur occasionally, and providing a comprehensive and forthright way to handle these events, is a fundamental step toward five-nines availability.

Routing protocols have far-reaching effects on the performance and reliability of your network, but sorting out the differences between them can be a challenge. Choose the best one for your network by ...

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I explained in the previous post how the RSVP-TE Explicit Route Object (ERO) specifies the path of an MPLS LSP by means of a sequenced list of Label Switching Routers (LSRs) that the LSP must pass ...

Like many words in the English language, “network” and “protocol” have different meanings, depending on the context. In the context of digital communications, Merriam-Webster defines network as “a ...