WIth merchant silicon getting faster and stronger everyday, and capacity and transit in a freewill, I’m not sure what GPU optimization would buy you, not to mention the ROI. The Internet routing table is not showing substantial signs of growth and in some cases has experienced a plateau. Also, the experience with ‘route optimization tools’ is that while they may bring you some priority in your traffic, they are also known for making horrible decisions resulting in widespread outages.
J~ > On Dec 5, 2024, at 8:13 AM, Drew Weaver <drew.wea...@thenap.com> wrote: > > So back in the.. hell I don’t know like… early 2010s there was a push for > ‘route optimization’ from products like RouteScience and the Avaya CNA and > more recently whatever Noction is doing. > > The big pain point for this technology at the time was that it could only > optimize the top N egress routes due to how many probes it could send out and > how many results it could process. > > It seems like now with a modest GPU in a router you could pretty easily > ‘optimize’ [to the extent that you believe this technology worked] pretty > much the whole routing table. > > We used these tools extensively back then and they actually worked pretty > well in most cases. The biggest issue we ran into was people complaining that > we pinged their IP addresses… which now a days seems like a great worst > problem to have. > > Anyway is anyone doing any work on implementing GPUs into the BGP decision > making process? Seems like a no brainer. > > -Drew
