Static routing and dynamic routing are two methods used to determine how to send a packet toward its destination. Static routes are configured in advance of any network communication. Dynamic routing, ...

A new office, a cloud application, or a sudden surge in demand can put pressure on network teams to reconfigure and scale ...

Segment Routing (SR) is a flexible and scalable way of performing source routing. The source chooses a path and encodes it in the packet header as an ordered list of segments. Each segment is ...

Will this new packet-forwarding mechanism replace OpenFlow for software-defined networking? IP packet forwarding techniques traditionally have relied on taking the shortest path to the destination IP ...

In IP communications, the concept of sessions has become second nature. Modern PBXs and video conferencing systems are built around the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP). At the network edge, session ...

The inefficiency factor in the case of traditional routing is one of the main reasons why SD-WAN is really taking off. BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) is considered the glue of the internet. If we view ...

With Arista WAN Routing System the company explicitly targets routing use cases such as SD-WAN for the first time. Arista Networks has taken its first direct step into WAN routing with new software, ...