Recognizing IXPs as critical infrastructure
Guest Post: What happens when IXPs fail and why classifying them as critical infrastructure is a necessity.
IXP steps into the terabit era
Guest Post: Tracing the growth of an IXP from a local hub to exceeding one terabit of Internet traffic.
The IXP — a privileged observation point, the airport of the Internet
Guest Post: How has traffic changed over the years?
Olympeaks: The impact of the Paris 2024 Olympics on Internet traffic
Guest Post: The ‘Olympeaks Observatory’ tracked record-breaking peaks in Internet traffic during the 2024 Olympics.
How broadcasting a major event affects Internet traffic from an IXP’s perspective
Guest Post: Internet traffic trends during the Sanremo Festival in Italy paint an interesting picture.
BGP in the EVPN model
Guest Post: Using BGP to advertise MAC addresses, with the same operating model as Layer 3 VPNs.
The elephant effect
Guest Post: Considerations on the phenomenon of streaming football in Italy and the operators’ point of view.
Checking prefix filtering in IXPs with BIRD and OpenBGPD
Guest Post: How to configure the two most common routing daemons used in IXP environments.