by Munya Kwaks | Mar 20, 2024 | IP Infusion, Network Engineering
Over the past few years, a number of internet Service Providers (ISPs) have upgraded to 100 Gigabit core networks. Many have found success using Mikrotik on the path to 100Gb core using Layer 2 VPN technology like VPLS. With the proper hardware and design, this...
by Sajan Parikh | Apr 16, 2023 | IP Infusion, netElastic, vBNG
Having highly available layer-2 uplinks in a service provider has been around for a long time and there have been various ways to do it over the years, multi-chassis lag, stacking, active passive pseudowires, and more. If you use traditional VPLS and dual home a...
by Sajan Parikh | Feb 18, 2023 | IP Infusion
Multicast used to be the defacto standard for delivering IPTV and a lot of legacy IPTV systems are still fully based on multicast or require sending local channels via multicast to a large provider to get the stream back for unicast delivery to clients. This has only...
by Sajan Parikh | Jan 14, 2023 | IP Infusion, network operating systems
We recently did a webinar on alternatives to Juniper Network’s MX204 platform. While the MX204 was a fully capable router it was End Of Life’d and then recently the EOL was revoked after approximately a year. During the period before the end of life...
by Sajan Parikh | Nov 13, 2022 | IP Infusion, MikroTik, Uncategorized
One of the biggest misconceptions I had before moving into the service provider space was that all layer 2 operations had been replaced with layer 3. I quickly found out that even if you are routing everything there are still a lot of layer 2 overlays in place,...
by Sajan Parikh | Sep 11, 2022 | calix, Interop, IP Infusion
With the current state of the supply chain lead times for networking gear can be astronomical. This led consumers to look at other options for networking equipment forcing the whitebox and disaggregated networking market to become more prevalent. With full featured...
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