The most important metric for a BGP optimizer is how much it physically weighs. That way you'll know if you can carry it to the trash pile yourself, or need to get help so you don't hurt your back.

On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 9:21 AM Ryan Hamel <Ryan.Hamel@quadranet.com> wrote:

The answers which you seek would be considered secret sauce to these vendors.

But you can start at running MTRs through a VRF per carrier only containing a default route, and looking at the results.

Ryan

On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 6:11 AM -0700, "Dimeji Fayomi" <oof1@students.waikato.ac.nz> wrote:

Hi,

I'm doing a research on BGP route optimisation and the performance metrics used by commercial route optimizer appliances to select better path to a prefix.

I would appreciate any information about the performance metrics used in commercial BGP route optimizers, white papers or any other document that describes how these metrics are measured and collected by commercial route optimizers.

Thanks

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Dimeji Fayomi