* [email protected] (Mark Tinka) [Sat 16 Nov 2024, 02:53 CET]:
The original intention for route servers is to simplify turn-up for
the majority of networks, most of whom will be eyeball-focused. They
did offer cloud & content folk utility as they quickly ramped up
their CDN deployments globally over the past decade-and-a-bit.
One of the original intentions was that. The other, major, driver was
control plane scalability. For a while IXPs grew way too large in
regard to the number of available peers for certain routing engines
from certain vendors to keep up in case there ever was a switch
outage. A router server could radically decrease the number of EBGP
peers and thus overhead.
-- Niels.
