Thanks Dylan, so bgp route-policy controller and optimizer. Any thoughts to go more granular than ips and look into the ports as well. ________________________________ From: Dylan Kraklan <dylan.kraklan@dedipath.com> Sent: Tuesday, August 6, 2019 2:31 PM To: lobna gouda <lobna_gouda@hotmail.com> Cc: nanog@nanog.org <nanog@nanog.org> Subject: Re: Network controller We are looking for something that could manage our commts with our providers from keeping us from having to pay overages. and possibly something similar to noction which would optimize BGP to improve traffic to our clients. On Tue, Aug 6, 2019 at 1:12 PM lobna gouda <lobna_gouda@hotmail.com<mailto:lobna_gouda@hotmail.com>> wrote: Hello Networker, Wanted to get a general feedback, if you are considering having a controller on your network. Let's say it will be on your core network to handle your mpls network or core network or to provide Traffic Engineering (TE) feedback/decisions What would you need from a controller and its software What we would like to have in a controller and its software what we can live without it ( The answer isnot the controller here) Cdt LG -- Dylan Kraklan Executive Vice President DediPath | Dedicated Serves | Colocation | Virtual Private Servers Office: 1 (877) 234-DEDI Ext 806 http://www.dedipath.com