[c-nsp] Best Practices for quickly removing routes when BGP peer drops

[Shawn L]

We currently have a couple of Internet feeds (full tables) and peering
sessions to most of the major streaming networks, etc.  When our peering
sessions go down for whatever reason (lately it's been fiber cuts) it takes
a couple of minutes for our routers to process all of the routing changes
and for streaming sessions to start up again.

I'm wondering what others are doing to try to reduce this time.  In the
past I was always told that reducing the BGP timers was a bad idea.  Is
that still the case?  BFD?

Thanks

Shawn