Linode Linode Network Backbone Upgrades

eva2000 · Jun 28, 2017

Linode has been upgrading it's network and here's the results Linode Blog » Linode Network Backbone

As we outlined in our last network update, our network engineering department has been hard at work revamping our entire Internet-facing network by turning up gobs of capacity and directly peering with hundreds of networks all over the globe. Since then, we have extended our network backbone to all datacenters in North America and Europe. This means any communications between Linode datacenters will never leave our ASN 63949. Having direct private connectivity between our sites takes the volatility of the internet out of the equation.

Customers can trust that their multi-site apps hosted with us will be able to communicate over the fastest and most reliable means possible. Our engineers worked closely with our vendors to pick the shortest fiber paths possible, which in turn gives our customers the lowest latency between locations. Across our current longest path (Fremont DC to Frankfurt DC), we were able to cut the RTT down by over 15ms. We have also seen the inevitable occurrences of internet-related jitter and packet loss disappear.

While delivering direct connectivity between Linode’s public interfaces is great, we do not plan to stop there. Our engineers have spent countless hours building relationships and forging peer agreements with hundreds of content and eyeball networks. Now with an accelerated and fortified network backbone, we can extend the benefits of these relationships that are currently contained in a single datacenter to any datacenter along our backbone. For example, customers in Newark will directly benefit from our robust peering relationships in Europe and vice versa. The less traffic sent through multiple transits hops the better cloud we provide for our customers.

Now that Linode’s North American and European DCs are integrated, we have begun addressing our AsiaPAC network. During a recent trip to Singapore, our network engineers lighted dark fiber to one of the most carrier-dense buildings in Asia, giving us the foundation to extend our backbone there, too.
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