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BGP Data Collectionin the AP region

Sofía Silva Berenguer – Internet Data Scientist (APNIC)sofia@apnic.net

Creating better local maps

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Traffic in Kathmandu

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My commute to work J

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My commute to work J

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Traffic in Kathmandu

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Traffic in Nepal

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How good is your vision?

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Maybe we need glasses?

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Or just to open our eyes?

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We need better local “maps”!• We will design and deploy a routing measurement platform in our

region.– To have better local maps we need more local data

• What do my neighbours know about my network?• What does my neighbourhood look like?• Could I do better by connecting to new peers?• Can I detect and troubleshoot routing issues faster?

– Sure you can!!

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Benefits• To network operators

– BGP session status– Routing table size– Real time BGP messages– Reachability of prefixes– Alerts, etc.

• Globally– Improved routing stability/robustness understanding– Improved Internet topology understanding

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Security/Privacy Concern?• Are you concerned to share routing data?

– You shouldn’t!

• It’s no secret that the streets in Kathmandu are quite busy, is it?

• BGP data is public anyway– You are sharing it with your neighbours, who in turn are sharing it

with their neighbours and so on and so forth.

• By sharing it with a data collector you are just making it easier to have more and better points of view

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Concerns About Costs?• Are you afraid this could increment your transit costs?

– No traffic will be sent through the BGP sessions established with us– Just BGP messages

• Are you concerned about the effort/time you will have to invest on this?– Establishing the BGP session will just take a few minutes on your

side (see next slide J)– No maintenance is required

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1st Nepalese feed!!• In less than half an hour:

– A BGP session between Isolario and Websurfer was up and running– Krishna and Sachindra had credentials to access Isolario Web Portal

and start playing with the tools

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Yet another BGP feed?• Are you already participating in any BGP Data Collection project?

– RouteViews– RIPE NCC’s RIS– Packet Clearing House– ??

• But!– These are all independent efforts. No single view of the Internet as a whole.– There are not that many collectors in the AP region

• So… we are also working on another project :)– Collaborative Project to Integrate Collected BGP Data

• In collaboration with other BGP data collection projects• Define a data format and technical solution to integrate the BGP data that is already available

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Wrapping up• We’ve been trying to understand the AP region observing it from

far far away.

• We want to create better local maps of the Internet to be able to:– Detect and troubleshoot issues faster– Identify opportunities of better interconnection– Understand better the Internet topology

• We need YOU to be on-board!

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Are you interested in participating?• Let me know• Give me your business card• Let’s set up a BGP session• And start creating better maps to see things in more detail!

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