FIB Compression - Optimizing your Routing Tables

How Juniper Networks is using FIB compression in some routers to handle the internet tables size growth?
Since Junos 21.2, it's already enabled by default in some of our routers and more will use this feature in 2023.
Learn how it works, the limitations, the platforms, and verify its efficiency in this video completing the TechPost article:

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0:00​ • Intro
0:37 • Key concepts (FIB, Current BGP table size and growth, ...)
2:04 • FIB compression principles
4:58 • Examples
6:38 • Products supporting FIB compression
7:03 • Support and limitations
7:40 • Hardware implementation and processes involved
8:05 • Best case scenario with a unique Next-Hop address for all public routes
8:57 • Efficiency of the compression in live networks
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[miguelrio]

Hi. Great video. Quick question. I assume by Next-Hop is the BGP next hop. But could you not aggregate even more based on outgoing link (or real next hop)? Imagime two routes are aggregatable but they go to NH1 and NH2. Now imagine that a given router uses the same outgoing link to reach NH1 and NH2. They could still be aggregated, no? Unless in your video you mean next-hop as the actual next hop (but glancing over the report I don’t think you do)

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Fib compression feature is/will be used also on MX routers (for example on MX304) ?