An analysis of convergence delay caused by link failures in autonomous systems

With internal networks growing larger, dynamic routing protocols are becoming more prevalent in autonomous systems. Due to the importance of computers and network resources, many organizations implement redundant links to allow failover in the event of a link failure. When this failover occurs, the network must converge before traffic will be able to pass to and from the network segment that incurred a link failure. The time that is required for the network to converge is referred to as convergence delay. This paper will compare the convergence delay caused by link failures in both EIGRP and OSPF.