I am Manav Bhatia and have been working in L3 and Routing (BGP, OSPF, IS-IS, RIP and MPLS) since 2000 now. I designed BGP and BGP/MPLS VPN control plane from scratch for one of my earlier employers for our distributed router architecture. I have authored several IETF RFC standards (5310, 5709, 5840, 6039, 6094, 6506, 6518 and 6564) and documents on BGP, IS-IS, OSPFv2, OSPFv3, IPv6, IPsec, 1588, BFD, PIM, NTP and Routing Protocols Security. I am a part of the advisory group of routing experts (Routing Directorate) selected by the IETF Routing Area Directors to assist them in reviewing standards produced in the IETF.
I am a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff (DMTS) at Alcatel-Lucent (SRPG, IP Division), and am responsible for architecting and designing the next generation of 7210 SAS series of Carrier Ethernet devices. Prior to this i was working on designing and implementing L3 forwarding, IGMP Snooping, Layer 3 VPNs, CPU Path, and MPLS control and data plane for the 7210 SAS routers.
I have been listed as one of the top 18 Indian Young Innovators under the age of 35 (TR35) by Massachusetts Institute of Technology‘s (MIT) publication, Technology Review India for the year 2011 for the work that i have done in Alcatel-lucent and Internet Routing Protocols Security.
manav_bhatia06 AT yahoo DOT co DOT uk
August 28th, 2008 at 6:44 pm
I need some help with MPLS.
February 19th, 2009 at 10:26 am
Hi Manav,
Thanks a lot for this web site on routing protocols. It’s really helpful for my work.
March 1st, 2009 at 2:08 pm
Came across this site on two googles. It’s going in my bookmarks for sure! Nice. Very informative.
June 14th, 2009 at 7:20 am
I’ve bookmarked this blog, very informative.
Thank you.
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August 14th, 2009 at 3:24 pm
Good job Manav, thank you!
May 13th, 2010 at 12:28 pm
Definitely! This is a brilliant resource for all the routing freaks out there.
Thanks for sharing the love
March 6th, 2011 at 4:07 am
Nice page! It has very interesting entries
August 10th, 2011 at 3:54 pm
Great stuffs. Bookmarked and will check on-and-off.
November 18th, 2011 at 11:04 am
Hello Sir
Myself, Manoj Kumar sharma working in CDOT, New Delhi, India.
In your document – bgp-path-hunting – you stated
“It has been shown through various studies that BGP convergence can be roughly given by the following formula:
Convergence = (Maximum AS_PATH – Minimum AS_PATH) x MRAI “.
I want the mathematical formula for BGP convergence in relation to no_of_routes and no_of_peers. I am unable derive a formula for this. I need your help for this.
Regards
Manoj
April 27th, 2012 at 4:20 am
Thanks for articles Manav. Please keep posting.
June 26th, 2012 at 7:14 pm
does the 7210 SAS-M support PIM, if not when will it support PIM
June 26th, 2012 at 11:11 pm
You need to get in touch with the 7210 Product Managers for this!
August 6th, 2012 at 12:55 pm
Hi Manav,
Just came across this website while looking for OSPF implementation of OSPF – there are some very interesting posts here (some even address issues i have come across in the past such as BFD over LAG interfaces, and the unexplained preference made by ISP for ISIS over OSPF
Will keep reading some more – I already have a few questions in mind
Keep up the great posts
Yuval
May 11th, 2013 at 8:10 pm
Hi Manav,
I’m collaborating with http://www.Routerfreak.com and I’d like to get in touch with you as we’re looking for technical writers.
Thanks!