Ivan Pepelnjak on SearchTelecom
Ivan Pepelnjak wrote numerous articles for SearchTelecom, the online community dedicated to solving the unique technical problems within the Telecommunications industry. Among other internetworking topics (see the Contents below), his articles cover MPLS, MPLS Traffic Engineering, BGP and IPv6.
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BGP
- Introduction to Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
- 5 essential reasons for BGP in your IP network
- Designing large-scale BGP networks
- Scale your backbone with core MPLS, BGP on the edge
- Improving BGP services and security
- Simple Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) troubleshooting
- Advanced Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) troubleshooting
- BGP Autonomous Systems transition: The 10 biggest concerns
- BGP essentials: The protocol that makes the Internet work (e-Guide)
- Advanced BGP network design for stability and security (e-Guide)
- Virtual aggregation: Lifeline for exploding Internet routing tables
- Internet routing table's best hope: Locator/ID Separation Protocol
Cloud computing
- Ensuring multi-tenant security in cloud services
- How to build a scalable IaaS cloud network infrastructure
- Are service providers using MPLS when designing cloud architecture? (Ask the expert)
- How do Infrastructure as a Service and multi-tenant services differ? (Ask the expert)
- Cloud infrastructure services: Balancing high availability and cost
- VPLS: A secure LAN cloud solution for some, not all
Ethernet
IPv6
- IPv6 deployment: Time for action
- Seven IPv6 networking myths that don't match reality
- IPv4 address exhaustion: Making the IPv6 transition work
- Comparing IPv6 to IPv4 address translation solutions
- Can I use MPLS Traffic Engineering with IPv6?
- IPv6 security issues: Fixing implementation problems
- Deploying IPv6? Demand responsiveness from vendors, content providers (quote)
- Service providers must optimize IPv6 performance for service parity (quote)
MPLS
- MPLS QoS: Implementing the best model for guaranteed service
- Scale your backbone with core MPLS, BGP on the edge
- What is the difference between MPLS and normal IP?
- How do multivendor MPLS core and edge networks compare to single-vendor?
- How will Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) interact with MPLS-TP in the future?
- MPLS QoS: Technical advances and service guarantees (tutorial)
- MPLS and MPLS Transport Profile (MPLS-TP): The technology differences
Network Management
Optical Networking
- IP over dense wave division multiplexing (DWDM): Metro and core issues
- Traffic grooming in optical networks: Making real-world choices
- Does Cisco's new CRS-3 router offer any improvements in optical traffic grooming?
- What's the difference between DWDM and CWDM?
- How does traffic grooming for optical networks work?
Quality of Service
- IP QoS: Two generations of class-of-service tools
- MPLS QoS: Implementing the best model for guaranteed service
Traffic Engineering
- MPLS traffic engineering essentials
- 10 MPLS traffic engineering myths and half truths
- Using MPLS TE to avoid core network congestion
- Traffic engineering's role in next-generation networks
- Traffic engineering the service provider network (e-Guide)
Traffic Management
- Broadband traffic management: Finding rational solutions to ease congestion
- Offering realistic broadband service definitions and acceptable-use policies
- Taking bandwidth management above-board
- Network traffic management: Do carriers need dedicated boxes?
- Deep packet inspection: Who needs it for network traffic management?
VPN
- Deciding when to offer Layer 2 or Layer 3 VPNs
- Choosing customer MPLS VPN routing protocols
- VPLS: A secure LAN cloud solution for some, not all (AKA: VPLS is not Aspirin)
- Private IP addresses in public networks: a security risk?