Global Routing System Scaling Issues Cathy Wittbrodt - iVMG, Inc Moderator

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

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?

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?

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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