30º Jan 2018
Sharktech Adds Noction Intelligent Routing Platform
We’re always working on enhancing the Sharktech network and we’d like to tell you about an update we’re doing to our network. Even with our top Tier transit providers, we decided to take it one step further to find the best possible way to improve our network. You may have even noticed on your own – our network just got a whole lot ...
30º Jan 2018
How BGP Works (Why not all of your traffic goes over CN2)
Sharktech’s Los Angeles network has six highly sought after direct upstream carriers:
CN2 (China Telecom Next Generation Carrier Network, AS4809)
China Telcom (AS4134)
China Unicom (AS4837)
Comcast (AS7922)
GTT (AS4436 and AS3257)
NTT (AS2914)
BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) will analyze and select the best route. The route may vary ...
23º Jan 2018
Los Angeles Router Maintenance
Hi,Today we began the process of adding CN2 to our Los Angeles network. This process typically requires no downtime, but our network engineers ran into an issue with the way that Noction, which we use for intelligent routing, interacts with Netflow. Noction, which is critical to providing lower latency and higher reliability than traditional ...
