16 Nov
2024
16 Nov
'24
7:11 a.m.
* mark@tinka.africa (Mark Tinka) [Sat 16 Nov 2024, 02:53 CET]:
The original intention for route servers is to simplify turn-up for the majority of networks, most of whom will be eyeball-focused. They did offer cloud & content folk utility as they quickly ramped up their CDN deployments globally over the past decade-and-a-bit.
One of the original intentions was that. The other, major, driver was control plane scalability. For a while IXPs grew way too large in regard to the number of available peers for certain routing engines from certain vendors to keep up in case there ever was a switch outage. A router server could radically decrease the number of EBGP peers and thus overhead. -- Niels.