How do routing protocol convergence times affect network reliability, and what techniques can you use to minimize convergence time in OSPF and BGP deployments?

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Routing protocol convergence is the time it takes for all routers in the network to agree on a new topology after a change, such as a link failure, and update their forwarding tables accordingly. During convergence, traffic may be black-holed, looped, or take suboptimal paths.