When BGP meets Big-data

The Internet is very much alive, with millions of BGP events occurring every day. BGP monitoring and reporting tools have been in use for many years now and are …

The Internet is very much ‘alive’, with millions of BGP events occurring every day. BGP monitoring and reporting tools have been in use for many years now and are a standard part of many operators toolkits. With all this ‘noise’, how do we extract and understand the ‘signal’? Can we apply techniques from other domains in this pursuit? It is well understood that systems can produce more data than we know what to do with. Asking questions of the data, using analytics techniques will help to open up new operational and business insights. In this presentation, we propose that big-data analytics should be a foundational element of the next generation of operational analysis systems. Applications range from Data-center performance and operations, extracting insights from data-plane traffic through to Smartcities and IoT-centric applications. This presentation will show how the PNDA.io platform can be used to realise such insights and present use cases that demonstrate some of the possibilities enabled by the use of big data analytics. As an illustration, we will show the use of the PNDA.io platform in combination with OpenBMP, in order to be able to ask questions about the stability of Internet, the consistency of paths through the Internet, the frequency of changes and how such behaviours are changing over time. PNDA.io is a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project.