Tag: Routing

Tag: Routing

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Triple Whammy of Loss of Wavelength, Routing Control Plane Crash, and IGP Issues

How three faults aligned to cause a significant outage in our UK network on the morning of 25th July 2022.





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Our UK Ring is Complete

The last link in our network around the UK was brought into production service.




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Our Peering and Transit Network Upgrade

Over the last month we have been working hard to upgrade and improve our network. We have performed some maintenance, some upgrades, and overhauled our peering and transit "edge" to improve routing convergence, BGP security, and be ready to grow our capacity.










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Network at Faelix

Triangles are solid and stable shapes, and for that reason they form the basis of our upgraded network. Our core network in Manchester Reynolds House looks a lot like a pentagram: no link is a single point of failure. Also, we are one of the few small ISPs to run more than one routing platform, which has isolated us from catastrophic implementation bugs if we had just one vendor involved.