spotify's SDN router

[wintermute000]

https://labs.spotify.com/2016/01/27/sdn-internet-router-part-2/

[routerdork]

That's cool to see a new approach like that. Good read. Would like to know more about the hardware they tested/used.

[Otanx]

Cool article. Had to chuckle over the - We decided to use Selective Route Download. then two sections later - The switch we selected didn't support Selective Route Download

I understand there were other reasons for selecting that switch, and working with the vendor got the SRD stuff working I found it funny.

-Otanx

[NetworkGroover]

If you read into the details, and then look at what vendors advertise, you can probably guess who the vendor is

"This was a problem that the vendor could help us with a patch in less than 24 hours."

"Because the LEM table was so big our vendor implemented a nice trick where that table was partitioned so it could store routes with a prefix length of 24 for IPv4 and 48 for IPv6."

"the ARAD chipset"

"a vendor that was open to help us to make sure we would succeed"