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Tony Li

Tony Li has been a pioneer in Internet routing for 30 years, helping to scale the Internet architecture. He led the initial deployment of BGP and CIDR, ensuring that the Internet could pivot to an efficient routing and addressing architecture, led development of core router projects at Cisco, Juniper, and Procket, and has continually innovated in routing architecture, delivering BGP4, Traffic Engineering, Dynamic Flooding, and Area Proxy. Tony has been past co-chair of the CIDR Deployment, Mobile IP, and IS-IS IETF working groups and the IRTF Routing Research Group.

A brief history of router architecture

By Tony Li on 12 Mar 2021

Guest Post: Here’s what we’ve learned about networks and the routers that interconnect them in the last 50 years.