From: Craig Columbus (Craig.Columbus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Fri Mar 08 2002 - 13:00:04 GMT-3
I'm sure you'll get better answers than mine, but I think it boils down to
your customer base.
If you're dealing with small customers that only have a few hundred nodes,
BGP probably isn't necessary.
If your customer has 100000 nodes, a worldwide WAN, and the need for
multiple redundant Net connections that don't tie them to an ISP, you'll
want a portable IP space and peer this space with the providers using BGP.
Hope this helps.
Craig
At 03:25 PM 3/8/2002 +0000, you wrote:
>Question.
>
>Why would a company want BGP?
>
>In what scenarios would it be good working policy to actually sell them
>BGP instead of advertising their netblock through redistribution means and
>giving them a default route.
>I have struggled with this question for a while and I can't really come up
>with any hard evidence to the benefits of BGP for a customer.
>
>I mean what does BGP give a customer?
>
>Any thoughts welcome
>
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