Global Routing System Scaling Issues

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Global Routing System Scaling Issues

• Cathy Wittbrodt - iVMG, Inc
• Moderator

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Global Routing System Scaling Issues Original
Preposition
With the rapid growth of the Internet routing
table, providers with lower-capacity routers are
experiencing difficulty maintaining network
stability, even with aggressive filtering
policies in place. The panel will discuss the
causes of routing prefix table growth, measures
providers should take to curtail it, and
alternate measures small enterprises and service
providers can take to insure redundancy and
load-balancing without announcing their prefixes
into the global table. Timothy Brown Prestige
Net
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Global Routing System Scaling Panel

• Global Routing table is growing
• IP address allocation policies are changing
• AS numbers are being assigned at an exponential
  rate

• How do each of these things affect the
  operational network?

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More Fundamental Questions

• Is the growth in the global routing table
  affecting even ISPs who have the current most up
  to date and fastest routers?

• What does this mean for customers?
• Will it all crash and burn?
• What can we do to help things scale?

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Panel Participants In order of appearance

• Abha Ahuja Arbor Networks
• Bill Woodcock Packet Clearinghouse
• Vijay Gill - MFN
• Tony Li - Procket
• Enke Chen Redback Networks

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The Plan

• Presentations
• Discussion