Re:How Google Wants to Rewire the Internet
by erentz on Monday July 17, 2017 @11:25PM
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It's extremely high level and vague presumably by intention. If you don't have a grounding in networking, BGP, traffic engineering (MPLS, SR, related concepts), you won't be able to make out much about it. If you do, you'll just infer that they're doing a form of "egress peer engineering". On top of that it sounds like they're potentially using whitebox switches at the edge and terminating BGP peering sessions on servers which are programming the forwarding state on these white boxes.
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Re:How Google Wants to Rewire the Internet
by FrozenVoid on Tuesday July 18, 2017 @12:26AM
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I have little to nothing expirience in BGP and routing.
It seems they cloudified the routing layer by making their machines part of some 'abstract router cloud' that can be reconfigured at will(centrally).