Every dot on this map is an Autonomous System (AS): a network, or group of networks, run by one organisation — an internet provider, a university, a cloud provider, a company's own network — that has its own block of IP addresses and decides, as a single unit, how traffic enters and leaves it. An AS is not a building, a single computer, or even a single physical place: one AS can be one rack in a data centre, or the entire network of a nationwide internet provider.
An AS itself is not a computer, it is a boundary. Inside it there can be a handful of servers, or millions of laptops, phones, routers, smart-home gadgets and websites, none of which are visible on this map. A large internet provider's AS, for example, stands for every one of its customers' home routers and everything behind them — but it is still just one dot here, the same size category as a single small company's network.
The lines between dots are not physical cables; they are observed routing relationships. The Internet has no central map of itself. Instead, each AS tells its neighbours, using a protocol called BGP (Border Gateway Protocol), which IP address ranges ("prefixes") it can reach and through which path. By collecting what thousands of networks announce to each other (via RIPE NCC's Routing Information Service, see the Credits dialog), this map reconstructs which ASes are, in practice, directly connected to each other.
BGPVerse visualises this AS-level topology: which networks exist, roughly how large they are (by number of IP prefixes and neighbours), which country they are registered in, and which other networks they are talking to right now in the live BGP feed. It does not show individual IP addresses, physical cables or data centres, or real-time traffic volume — only who is connected to whom, as seen through Internet routing.
The short, comet-like lines that dart across the map (when the Live view is on) are individual, real-time BGP route announcements and withdrawals as RIPE's route collectors observe them, seconds after the fact. Each flash is a single routing-table change between two ASes — not a data packet, a request or "live traffic" in the usual sense, just one update to who-can-reach-whom. A burst of flashes around one AS over a short time is usually routine (maintenance, a session reset, traffic engineering); occasionally it marks an anomaly candidate (see the glossary below), which is a hint worth a second look, not proof of a problem.
A red, dashed line is a different, more specific signal: it marks an anomaly candidate, connecting the AS that just announced a prefix to the AS the snapshot expected to originate it instead. It means "this announcement looks unusual compared to what we knew before", not that an attack or outage is definitely happening — see the log (More menu, when Live is on) for the details behind any particular flash.
BGPVerse is built entirely from data published by RIPE NCC's Routing Information Service (RIS): route collectors at Internet exchange points around the world record the BGP announcements their connected networks send them. The map itself is a periodically refreshed snapshot of a full routing table; with the Live view on, it additionally follows RIPE's RIS Live real-time feed for the flashes described above. See the Credits dialog (footer) for full attribution, data-quality notes and licensing.
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The link restores the view, projection, selection, path and filters.
The long link above works forever on its own (nothing is sent to the server). "Create short link" is optional and asks the server to remember this view under a short id instead — best-effort only, it may stop working after a server restart or once very old.
Links seen by a single collector peer can be path poisoning or leaks. The filter applies to the map, the path finder and the neighbour lists.
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“The RIPE Routing Information Service (RIS) is a RIPE NCC service. With the help of network operators all over the world, RIS employs a globally distributed set of Remote Route Collectors (RRCs), typically located at Internet Exchange Points, to collect and store Internet routing data. Volunteers peer with the RRCs using the BGP protocol and RIS stores the update and withdraw messages. RIS data can be accessed via: RIPEstat, the “one-stop shop” for all available information about Internet number resources. RIPEstat uses individual widgets to display routing and other information; RIS Live, a real time BGP streaming API allowing server-side filtering of BGP messages by prefix or autonomous system; RIS Raw Data, available for each route collector, with state dumps and batches of updates made available periodically; RISwhois, that searches the latest RIS data for details of an IP address using a plaintext “whois”-style interface. It is useful when querying RIS data using scripts.”
AS names and registration countries: RIPE NCC AS names list. Land outline: Natural Earth 1:50m land polygons (public domain). Icons: a small selection from Font Awesome Free (CC BY 4.0), self-hosted, not loaded from a CDN.
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