BGP Services

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What is BGP?
The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is the core routing protocol of the Internet. It maintains a table of IP networks or 'prefixes' which designate network reachability among autonomous Systems (AS). It is described as a path vector protocol. BGP does not use traditional IGP metrics, but makes routing decisions based on path, network policies and/or rule sets.

Here's the basic idea: The internet is comprised of independent networks called autonomous systems. Each autonomous system is self-governing as far as information exchange within the system. To communicate outside the autonomous system, each has at least one exterior gateway, which links to other autonomous systems. The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) determines which route packets take when sent between nodes in separate autonomous systems. Each exterior gateway advertises its routing information to other autonomous systems and keeps a routing table of the entire internet. BGP determines the best routes based on various attributes, including weight, origin, and next hop.

How and Why Do We Do This?
We offer four paths to the internet, on four different loops, from three different providers, from two different access points into our building. Even if 1,2 or even 3 loops fails your connection stay up. No single point of failure. This is truly fully backed up. Does your data center provider do this?  Our Las Vegas Collocation Facility has all the advanced technology to support full "never down", fully secured and managed network data.
 

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