Lucas and Luna dive into segment routing, a modern traffic engineering approach that simplifies how networks steer packets. They explain how segment routing labels replace complex per-flow state, compare it to MPLS, and walk through a real-world case where a large cloud provider cut bandwidth costs by 30 percent. The episode covers the role of the segment routing header in IPv6, how it improves network utilization, and why engineers say it makes troubleshooting easier. They also touch on the inevitable trade-offs: hardware upgrades and a learning curve for teams used to traditional routing protocols. A concrete look at a technology quietly reshaping backbone and data center networks.
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