SEECIX GlobePEER Route Server Informational BGP Communities

DE-CIX PS Team Updated by DE-CIX PS Team

We use BGP Communities to tag some additional information on redistributed routes.These kind of BGP Communities will be referred to as Informational BGP Communities.

Route Origin

The route servers will tag all routes to indicate their origin. You can use this information to determine where a certain route has been injected into the SEECIX switching platform. This gives you the option to filter routes learned from the route servers based on geographical location.

Every route you receive from the route servers will have four (additional) BGP Communities attached which indicate location information:

  • Switch: e.g. 101 for edge01.ath1 (see table below for more information)
  • Metro: e.g. 12 for Athens (see table below for more information)
  • Country: e.g. 300 for Greece (UN M49 format)
  • Continent: e.g. 150 for Europe (UN M49 format)
To avoid ambiguity about the semantics of a certain BGP Community, especially when being present multiple times, we strip all BGP Communities from the range that we use for route origin tagging on import. This is:
56858:1911:*
56858:1912:*
56858:1913:*
56858:1914:*

Route Origin Overview

Continent
56858:1914:<CONTINENT> 		Country
56858:1913:<COUNTRY> 		Metro
56858:1912:<METRO> 		Switch
Facility
56858:1911:<SWITCH>
Americas
56858:1914:19 		United States of America 🇺🇸
56858:1913:840 		New York City (NYC)
(DE-CIX)
56858:1912:4 		edge02.nyc1
Databank NYC1/LGA1
56858:1911:127
edge04.nyc3
CoreSite - New York (NY1)
56858:1911:209
edge03.nyc5
Market Halsey Urban Renewal (165 Halsey)
56858:1911:201
edge03.nyc6
Digital Realty NY JFK10
56858:1911:196
edge02.nyc8
Digital Realty NY JFK12
56858:1911:124
edge01.nyc9
Long Island Interconnect (fka 1025Connect)
56858:1911:165
edge02.nyc17
QTS Piscataway (PNJ1)
56858:1911:170
edge01.nyc18
DataVerge Brooklyn
56858:1911:205
Asia
56858:1914:142 		Türkiye 🇹🇷
56858:1913:792 		Istanbul (IST)
(DE-CIX)
56858:1912:7 		edge02.ist1
MedNautilus - Verizon
56858:1911:133
edge02.ist2
Equinix IL2
56858:1911:158
edge01.ist5
Vodafone Esenyurt MTX
56858:1911:139
edge01.ist7
Ankara Ixpanse AN1
56858:1911:8187
Europe
56858:1914:150 		France 🇫🇷
56858:1913:250 		Marseille (MRS)
(DE-CIX)
56858:1912:6 		edge02.mrs1
Digital Realty MRS1
56858:1911:97
Germany 🇩🇪
56858:1913:276 		Dortmund (DTM)
(Ruhr-CIX)
56858:1912:20 		edge01.dtm1
Glasfaser Ruhr Datacenter Herne
56858:1911:115
Dusseldorf (DUS)
(DE-CIX)
56858:1912:9 		edge02.dus1
Digital Realty DUS1
56858:1911:93
Frankfurt (FRA)
(DE-CIX)
56858:1912:0 		edge02.fra2
Digital Realty FRA4
56858:1911:89
edge01.fra5
Equinix FR2
56858:1911:179
edge02.fra6
Digital Realty FRA5
56858:1911:90
edge02.fra9
Equinix FR7 A, Zone17
56858:1911:163
edge01.fra10
NTT FRA1
56858:1911:105
edge01.fra11
Telehouse Frankfurt I
56858:1911:190
edge02.fra12
Equinix FR5
56858:1911:82
edge03.fra12
Equinix FR5
56858:1911:172
edge01.fra19
Maincubes FRA01
56858:1911:1191
Hamburg (HAM)
(DE-CIX)
56858:1912:2 		edge03.ham1
n@work HAM
56858:1911:122
edge01.ham4
EWE TEL TBG Oldenburg
56858:1911:4189
Munich (MUC)
(DE-CIX)
56858:1912:1 		edge02.muc1
Equinix MU1
56858:1911:96
Greece 🇬🇷
56858:1913:300 		Athens (ATH)
56858:1912:12 		edge01.ath1
Digital Realty ATH2
56858:1911:101
Italy 🇮🇹
56858:1913:380 		Palermo (PMO)
(DE-CIX)
56858:1912:5 		edge02.pmo1
Sicily Hub - Telecom Italia Sparkle
56858:1911:180
Portugal 🇵🇹
56858:1913:620 		Lisbon (LIS)
(DE-CIX)
56858:1912:11 		edge02.lis1
Equinix LS1
56858:1911:138
edge01.lis3
Start Campus SIN01
56858:1911:182
Spain 🇪🇸
56858:1913:724 		Barcelona (BCN)
(DE-CIX)
56858:1912:21 		edge01.bcn1
Equinix BA1
56858:1911:116
edge01.bcn4
Barcelona Cable Landing Station BCN1
56858:1911:188
Madrid (MAD)
(DE-CIX)
56858:1912:10 		edge02.mad1
Digital Realty MAD2
56858:1911:77
edge02.mad3
Equinix MD2
56858:1911:92
edge01.mad4
Global Switch MAD
56858:1911:103
Unknown Continent
56858:1914:65535 		Unknown Country
56858:1913:65535 		Unknown Metro
56858:1912:65535 		Unknown Switch
56858:1911:65535
If the exact location of a customer cannot be determined from our database, or in certain special cases, we mark these routes with 56858:191{1-4}:65535, meaning "unknown".
Example

A route has the following BGP Communities attached:

  • 56858:1914:150
  • 56858:1913:380
  • 56858:1912:5
  • 56858:1911:180

From these BGP Communities you can deduce that a given route learned from the SEECIX route servers (AS56858) has been injected into the SEECIX platform from Europe (56858:1914:150), Italy (56858:1913:380) in metro region Palermo (56858:1912:5) at edge02.pmo1 (56858:1911:180).

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