Dutch Provider Cuts BGP Convergence Times from Minutes to Seconds
When A2B Internet’s network began to struggle under a burgeoning number of routing tables, the provider installed a virtual routing foundation to speed things up.
A2B Internet is a large, low-latency connectivity provider in the Netherlands that also provides IP address and routing management services. As customer traffic increased, the company sought a way to improve rerouting performance if a link were to fail.
Overview
| Company | A2B Internet |
| Industry | Service Provider |
| Products used | vMX Virtual Routing |
| Region | EMEA |
Business Challenge
A2B’s customers demand high levels of stability and rapid convergence at an affordable price. Under the weight of business growth, network performance was straining to keep pace. To maintain its low-latency performance, A2B needed quicker routing table convergence, network automation, and a simpler way to implement IPv6 solutions.
Technology Solution
The provider installed vMX virtual routing from Juniper. The carrier-grade vMX router has separate control, forwarding, and management planes and runs the Juniper Networks Junos® operating system on standard servers using x86 chipsets. A2B Internet runs the vMX on an open-source hypervisor supported on a dedicated bare-metal server running the Linux Ubuntu operating system.
Business Results
A2B can converge a full routing table in 3 to 4 seconds, improving performance such that it is noticeable by customers. The company reports even faster convergence than with a dedicated hardware system, because it can scale routing table convergence independently from the underlying hardware platform.
The Products
A robust portfolio of SDN-enabled routers that provide industry-leading system capacity, density, security, and performance with unparalleled longevity. MX Series platforms are the key to digital transformation for service providers, cloud operators, and enterprises in the cloud era.
