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i get the impression that routers are hard to configure well, particularly used in "complex" ways. isn't there some hardware startup looking at fixing this? i

i get the impression that routers are hard to configure well, particularly used in "complex" ways. isn't there some hardware startup looking at fixing this? i can't remember the name, but thought i had read about it here before. naivley, it seems like the configuration is at too low a level - individual routers - and that there should be higher level coordination with support for simulating different conditions. or does that already exist? what's state of the art for places like google to manage routers?

daave 14y ago
Google uses OpenFlow software defined networking: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenFlow http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenFlow http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLHJUfgxEO4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLHJUfgxEO4
packetslave 14y ago
Where the blog post says "traffic router" you should read "big pools of load balancing servers" not Junipers and Ciscos and whatnot. See also the posts in the google-appengine-downtime-notify group during the incident. https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/google-appengine-downtime-notify/SMd2pDJsCPo https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/google-a...