Internet Routing Daemon

Hundreds of networks are connected in a single point for network connection and data exchange. To compute best routes, these Internet Exchange Protocols deploy BIRD as a Route Server.

BIRD users appreciate the versatility and speed of the filtering engine, as well as stability, good scalability and resiliency.

Managing of whole server room networking may be scary. BIRD powers rack networking or virtualization backend, smoothly distributing information about server presence across the whole network.

To distribute content across the Internet efficiently, companies have multiple Points of Presence over the world. Every such point acts as a BGP Leaf Node. BIRD easily handles this task and propagates routing information to the Internet.

BIRD can be also configured as a Route Collector to have precise data for analysis and network settings tweaking.

In large networks with multiple uplinks and peerings, BIRD as Route Reflector reduces configuration complexity and allows for fast BGP route exchange.

Providers who prefer running a white-box hardware also can deploy BIRD there and have a completely open-source routing inside their network.

Manufacturers producing network hardware can integrate BIRD as the routing software layer. BIRD then does all the routing work and feeds the hardware forwarding layer with appropriate routes.