The World of OER/PfR

Hi All,

Currently, I'm working my preparation for the upcoming event in my Company next Thursday (June 30, 2011). I tell you guys, I'm gonna presentate the uncommon technology called Optimized Edge Routing (OER) or Cisco use the term Performance Routing (PfR) nowadays :)

in my opinion, this technology is very Cool indeed. Here's the Idea, Imagine that your network environment have two exit points toward the ISP, the most probably reason is having a redundant/backup connectivity.

Let say you connecting to ISP-A with commited bandwidth 128Kbps, and connecting to ISP-B with commited bandwidth 512Kbps. Your company running OSPF in it and redistributing these two default-route into your network using Metric-type 1 (O E1). So, in your routing Information which exit point the Internal Router will choose?

in the traditional routing environment, the connection to the ISP-B is chosen (except for the RIP implementation here :P). Let make this case much mode interesting, what if The Link to the ISP-A have low bandwidth and low delay, and the link to the ISP-B have high bandwidth and also high delay.

You're planning to deploy IP Telephony for one or two user, and your traffic gonna pass through the link up to the ISP-B. Guess what, your voice traffic will experiencing the high delay.

OER is one of the solution. Essentially with OER, the router now will choose the exit points based on the Performance, the performance itself can be based on delay, throughput, or even the custom application(s), Cool right!!!

I can wait to demonstrate this kind of technology to you guys, so I hope you guys will come to this event. The event itself will be held in Inixindo (www.inixindo.co.id) Jakarta on June 30, 2011, so you guys can just come in, oh yeah it is for free, so don't worry. There is gotta be some little marketing campaign :(, but I guess it is a fair game there.

I'm gonna upload the presentation after the event finished :)

see you guys there \^0^/