Equinix Internet Access BFD

Hi - Ada here from the EIA Product Management Team. To help us with our BFD roadmap, we'd love to get your thoughts on a few questions. You can share your answers publicly or send them directly to me via PM or email at community@equinix.com.

1. What is your expected failover time in case of a network failure?
2. Have you already adjusted BGP hold timers to achieve faster failure detection?
3. Are you currently using BFD with BGP in your environment?
   • If so, what has been your experience with stability and reconvergence?
   • Have you encountered issues with BFD being too sensitive?
4. Would a slightly slower but more stable failover mechanism be acceptable?
5. Are you aware of any alternative mechanisms you're currently using or considering for failure detection?
6. How many BFD sessions do you anticipate needing per device or per site?

We would like to enable BFD as well to enable us to quickly identify link failures. This service would enhance user experience and network visibility. 

BlueCross and BlueShield of Kansas would also be interested in having BFD available for the EIA services.  

Any updates on this one yet? I saw the last post was 3 months ago. 

Thanks. 

I had a customer reach out asking if this will be supported soon.  I let him know it is on the roadmap, no ETA just yet.  I asked him to join our community and upvote the idea. 

While there's no update on the timing right now, we're keeping a close eye on customer interest. If others are interested in the same idea, please comment and upvote it. This helps us prioritize what to work on next.

Hi Chana, Ada here from the EIA Product Management Team. Thanks so much for sharing your feedback on BFD.

Great news—it's on the roadmap! But we haven't finalized the timing yet. We'll mark this idea as "future consideration" so others can upvote and comment on it. 

Thanks for submitting an idea! We're investigating with our Equinix Internet Access Product Managers and will get back to you on your request.