Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
This presentation takes a humorous yet insightful look at Opensource BGP daemons, comparing how FRR, Bird, OpenBGPD, GoBGP, ExaBGP, Holo-Routing, and RustyBGP stack up against each other in implementing BGP. From the feature-rich FRR and GoBGP to the streamlined ExaBGP and the innovative RustyBGP and Holo-Routing, we’ll explore their capabilities, strengths, and shortcomings. Whether you’re building for performance, extensibility, or protocol support, this talk will help you pick the right daemon for your needs
Claus Rugani Töpke: Claus Töpke is a product developer and founder of Telcomanager. He has worked with large network service providers, such as Telstra, NBN Australia, NZ Telecom, AWS Australia, AWS US, and Embratel. He has also worked in conjunction with large network technology corporations, such as Nokia, Amazon, Juniper, and Cisco. He has been able to experience different job titles, passing through fields such as network engineering, network performance, product development, and software engineering. His experience with network automation has led to the construction of several products and systems for different companies. He also worked on network performance for his master’s thesis and wrote a book about service providers.
This presentation takes a humorous yet insightful look at Opensource BGP daemons, comparing how FRR, Bird, OpenBGPD, GoBGP, ExaBGP, Holo-Routing, and RustyBGP stack up against each other in implementing BGP. From the feature-rich FRR and GoBGP to the streamlined ExaBGP and the innovative RustyBGP and Holo-Routing, we’ll explore their capabilities, strengths, and shortcomings. Whether you’re building for performance, extensibility, or protocol support, this talk will help you pick the right daemon for your needs
Claus Rugani Töpke: Claus Töpke is a product developer and founder of Telcomanager. He has worked with large network service providers, such as Telstra, NBN Australia, NZ Telecom, AWS Australia, AWS US, and Embratel. He has also worked in conjunction with large network technology corporations, such as Nokia, Amazon, Juniper, and Cisco. He has been able to experience different job titles, passing through fields such as network engineering, network performance, product development, and software engineering. His experience with network automation has led to the construction of several products and systems for different companies. He also worked on network performance for his master’s thesis and wrote a book about service providers.
