Hello,
I am trying to determine for myself the relevance of Intelligent Routing Devices like Sockeye, Route Science etc. I am not trying to determine who does it better, but rather if the concept of optimizing routes is addressing a significant problem in terms of improved traffic performance ( not in cost savings of disparate transit pipes )
An alternative to using such devices would be to tune the BGP configuration of the routers. See below for a description of an algorithm that allows to determine the optimum configuration of BGP routers for some traffic objectives [UBQ03] S. Uhlig, O. Bonaventure, and B. Quoitin. Interdomain traffic engineering with minimal BGP configurations. In 18th International Teletraffic Congress (ITC), September 2003. http://totem.info.ucl.ac.be/publications.html This work is being pursued in the framework of a governement-funded three-years research project, where we are developping an open-source traffic engineering toolbox. This objective of this toolbox is to provide a set of tools that can be used by ISPs and entreprise networks to optimize their intradomain and interdomain traffic flow. The first release of the toolbox is planned for november 2004. To help us fit this toolbox to the needs of ISP and enterprise networks, we would appreciate if you could fill our survey at : http://totem.info.ucl.ac.be/te_form.html Best regards, Olivier Bonaventure -- CSE Dept. UCL, Belgium - http://www.info.ucl.ac.be/people/OBO/