Our IP Networks Analysis Service—which just lately underwent its huge annual replace—contains an evaluation that explores how, what, and the place web spine suppliers join.
Hold studying for a pattern of our 2024 supplier rankings findings, the place we evaluate totally different metrics to look at which web suppliers have the richest set of connections to different corporations.
Supplier Connectivity
Our rankings of supplier connectivity embody evaluation based mostly on BGP routing tables, which govern how packets are delivered to their locations throughout myriad networks as outlined by autonomous system numbers (ASNs). Each community should depend on different networks to achieve components of the web that it doesn’t itself serve; there is no such thing as a such factor as a ubiquitous web spine supplier.
If you’d like a single, easy quantity to establish the best-connected supplier on this planet, you might come away dissatisfied.
There are a number of methods to measure connectivity, and every highlights totally different strengths and weaknesses of a supplier’s presence.
There are a number of methods to measure connectivity, and every highlights totally different strengths and weaknesses of a supplier’s presence.
One fundamental metric is to depend the variety of distinctive Autonomous Programs (AS) to which a spine supplier connects, whereas filtering out inside firm connections. The outcomes are offered within the desk beneath.
Variety of Connections for Chosen Suppliers
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Notes: Knowledge exhibits the variety of connections to different ASNs. The road indicating Lumen’s variety of connections mirror Stage 3 (father or mother ASN 3356) reasonably than Lumen (previously father or mother ASN 209) previous to 2018. Supply: © 2024 TeleGeography
Hurricane Electrical has skilled constant positive aspects, and now ranks because the clear primary by way of connections. Cogent has additionally skilled regular development.
Lumen and Hurricane Electrical swapped the highest spot forwards and backwards for a number of years. Lumen (the rebranded CenturyLink) skilled enormous positive aspects a couple of years in the past when the corporate purchased Level3. Since then, the variety of ASNs linked to Lumen has stagnated.
Along with analyzing total variety of connections, we additionally use our evaluation of BGP routing tables to take a look at the “attain” (a measure of the variety of IP addresses an upstream ASN has been given entry to from downstream ASNs) and “share” (which compares an upstream supplier’s attain to all different upstream suppliers of a downstream ASN.)
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