bgproutes.io: A next-generation BGP data collection platform

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This episode discusses bgproutes.io, a new approach to BGP data collection and analysis with insights from its developers.

This episode of PING features Thomas Alfroy and Thomas Holterbach from the University of Strasbourg, talking about bgproutes.io - A new approach to BGP data collection and analysis. We've featured bgproutes.io on PING before, when we discussed GILL and DFOH with Professor Cristal Pelsser from Louvain University. At that stage, the project was in an early stage and we focussed on the machine learning and approaches to selecting the "Most valuable Vantage Point" or MVP in the data sources available. This time, the two Thomases discuss the operational deployment of the service, and how they have designed the system to provide fast visibility to data in a 3 month window, and an API for selection of prefixes and origin-AS of interest, to show the BGP transactions seen in the wild. They've been designing "dashboards" to show both the data and a sense of what logic determined the inferences made about the data. bgproutes.io has been written to process the newer BGP Monitoring protocol (BMP) which provides visibility of the discrete states of the individual BGP speakers who peer at the BMP collection point. So, considering an IX this means that a single feed can supply 50 or more…

People in this episode

Guests: Thomas Alfroy, Thomas Holterbach

Topics covered

• BGP data collection
• network analysis
• machine learning
• data visualization
• BGP Monitoring protocol

Keywords

• bgproutes.io
• BGP
• data collection
• API
• network monitoring
• machine learning
• data visualization

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: University of Strasbourg, Louvain University, University of Oregon, RIPE RIS, PCH, CGTF

Places: Sydney

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