In this presentation with NextHop 2020, Paolo defines the challenges of monitoring BGP from an operator perspective, goes through a bit of history of BGP monitoring and finally introduces the BGP Monitoring Protocol (BMP).

The BMP protocol aims to streamline BGP monitoring, improve telemetry accuracy and offer a rich set of BGP-related information. The protocol is being standardized in the GROW Working Group at IETF where Paolo is actively involved by co-authoring several drafting efforts around BMP.

Paolo Lucente is a Senior Software Development Engineer at the Global IP Network, a division of NTT Ltd. He specializes in network telemetry data analysis and collection. He’s also the author of the free, open-source software package pmacct. He has years of experience in the network operators arena and has an interest in the economics of traffic exchange on the public internet.