Tutorial: Effective BGP Load Balancing Using "The Metric System"
Moderator: Dani Roisman, Peak Web Consulting
Presentation Date: June 14, 2009, 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: Commonwealth A/B, 2nd FL
Abstract: Presenting real-world experiences of effective outbound load-balancing across multiple ISPs using BGP traffic engineering and what we call "the metric system." Primary audience is content or data hosting networks that connect to multiple ISPs. Focus is on actual techniques that have been used successfully in numerous installations for simple, effective, and reliable load balancing. This tutorial will show in-depth and specific configurations to achieve desired traffic engineering and will share real-world results.
Dani Roisman Biography: Dani Roisman provides Network Design and Engineering services at Peak Web Consulting. In addition to his role as a Senior Network Architect, he is also the Network Engineering Team Lead. He specializes in large content datacenters and networks, with a focus on peering and multi-homing to reduce costs, improve customer negotiating stance, as well as increased network capacity, performance, and fault-tolerance. His network design and implementation accomplishments include multiplayer game and social networking deployments hosting over 5,000 servers across 9 datacenters with Internet bandwidth capacities reaching 250Gbps.
Panelists: Lane Patterson, Equinix; Josh Snowhorn, Terremark; Dave Pickut, Equinix; Ben Stewart, Terremark Worldwide; Richard Donaldson, 6Connect; Tesh Durvasala, Telx
