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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>Hello Mark,<div><br></div><div>Answers in between your question.</div><div><br></div><div><br>Regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Frank<br><div><hr id="stopSpelling">Subject: Re: [afnog] Internet Traffic distribution management<br>To: rombokite@hotmail.com; afnog@afnog.org<br>From: mark.tinka@seacom.mu<br>Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2015 14:03:48 +0200<br><br>
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<div class="ecxmoz-cite-prefix">On 29/Sep/15 11:37, Frank Kuse wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Hello Mark,
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<div>Currently we don't have capacity on our Core for STM64 and
however having multiple STM16 also gives us good resilience.</div>
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What is your topology?</div><div><br></div><div>A weathermap view of the topology is as below </div><div><br></div><div><div id="inlineImage0" style="display: inline-block"><script type="jsv#3860_"></script> <span contenteditable="true"> </span> <div style="display: inline-block" unselectable="on" contenteditable="false" class="inlineImage" initheight="297" initwidth="806"><img src="cid:inlineImage0" height="297" width="806"></div> <span contenteditable="true"> </span></div></div><div><div style="display: inline-block"><script type="jsv/3860_"></script></div><br>
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Are you running long SDH circuits from your main base to some other
country where you're buying IP Transit, type-thing, or are you
purchasing IP locally within country?</div><div><br></div><div>We are buying IP Transit over SDH circuits.<br>
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If the former, do you have your own routers in the remote country?</div><div><br></div><div>No<br>
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<div>Our internet capacity is increasing everyday and even
though we have plan to upgrade our core routers this year.</div>
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So is the current issue the link size, or the routers needed to
support your ultimate link size?</div><div><br></div><div>The is issues is having an automatic way of balancing inbound traffic across the multiple links as we have control over the outbound traffic.<br>
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<div>We will still have the issues of dealing with two cable
providers but multiple internet peers and having to load
balance in this same manner and hence a solution hunt being
pursued now.. <br>
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Are these 8x providers all upstreams, peers, or a combination? If
the all upstreams, do you do any kind of peering anywhere in your
network?</div><div><br></div><div>They are all upstreams peers using BGP as the exchange mechanism and in our internal network we peer with Two PE routers running OSPF.</div><div>We also run iBGP between the two core routers. ( IGW1 and IGW2 as in diagram above).</div><div>
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