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Border Gateway Protocol’s (BGP) inherent ability to grow and expand in a dynamic and organic manner also belies one of its weaknesses as the world's Internet routing protocol: misconfiguration and human error. And that’s what happened last year when sites such as Facebook went offline.
Tap into this article to learn how you can overcome the shortcomings of BGP by giving the protocol network awareness to find the best performing path between source and destination and navigate around any outages or other issues impacting service.