Our IP Networks Analysis Service—which lately underwent its massive 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 examine completely 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 succeed in elements of the web that it doesn’t itself serve; there isn’t any such factor as a ubiquitous web spine supplier.
If you need a single, easy quantity to establish the best-connected supplier on this planet, you could come away dissatisfied.
There are a number of methods to measure connectivity, and every highlights completely different strengths and weaknesses of a supplier’s presence.
There are a number of methods to measure connectivity, and every highlights completely different strengths and weaknesses of a supplier’s presence.
One primary metric is to rely the variety of distinctive Autonomous Methods (AS) to which a spine supplier connects, whereas filtering out inside firm connections. The outcomes are introduced within the desk under.
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 replicate Stage 3 (dad or mum ASN 3356) relatively than Lumen (previously dad or mum ASN 209) previous to 2018. Supply: © 2024 TeleGeography
Hurricane Electrical has skilled constant features, and now ranks because the clear primary when it comes to connections. Cogent has additionally skilled regular progress.
Lumen and Hurricane Electrical swapped the highest spot backwards and forwards for a number of years. Lumen (the rebranded CenturyLink) skilled enormous features a couple of years in the past when the corporate purchased Level3. Since then, the variety of ASNs related 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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