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Informational BGP communities

Route origin

The route server will tag all prefixes with certain BGP Communities to indicate their origin. You can use this information to determine where a certain prefix has been injected into the DE-CIX switching platform. This gives you the possibility to filter routes learned from the route servers based on geographical location. 

Currently, we tag the following information:

Switch: Indicates at which switch a prefix has been injected into the DE-CIX platform. We tag the corresponding edge switch of the port.

  • Example: edge01.fra2

Metro: The metropolitan region corresponding to the switch.

  • Example: Frankfurt

Country: The country corresponding to the above (in M.49 format).

  • Example: Germany

Continent: The continent corresponding to the above (in M.49 format).

  • Example: Europe

This means that every prefix you learn from the route servers has four (additional) BGP Communities attached which indicate location information.

BGP communities graph

To avoid ambiguity about the semantics of a certain BGP Community, especially when present multiple times, we strip all BGP Communities from the range that we use for route origin tagging on import. This is:

  • 65101:*
  • 65102:*
  • 65103:*
  • 65104:*

Overview

ContinentM49 region code (continent)Continent BGP comCountryM.49 Region Code (country)Country BGP ComMetroMetro codeMetro BGP ComEdge switchSwitch codeSwitch BGP com
 Europe EU 150 65104:150Germany27665103:276

FRA

 100065102:1000edge01.fra2100165101:1001
edge02.fra2108965101:1089
edge01.fra6100265101:1002
edge02.fra6109065101:1090
edge01.fra9100665101:1006
edge02.fra9110265101:1102
edge01.fra10110565101:1105
edge01.fra12108565101:1085
edge02.fra12108265101:1082

MUC

3000

65102:3000edge02.muc1309665101:3096

HAM

4000

65102:4000edge02:ham1408165101:4081
edge03.ham1412265101:4122

DUS

9000

65102:9000edge02.dus1909365101:9093

DTM (Ruhr-CIX)

2300065102:23000edge01.dtm12311565101:23115

LEJ

32000

65102:32000

edge01.lej13214165101:32141
edge01.lej23214265101:32142
France FR25065103:250

MRS

600065102:6000edge02.mrs1609765101:6097
Italy IT38065103:380

PMO

700065102:7000edge02.pmo1718065101:7180
Spain ES72465103:724

MAD

1100065102:11000edge02.mad11107765101:11077
edge02.mad31109265101:11092
edge01.mad41110365101:11103

BCN

2400065102:24000edge01.bcn12411665101:24116
Portugal PT62065103:620

LIS

1200065102:12000edge02.lis11213865101:12138
Greece GR30065103:300

ATH (SEECIX)

1500065102:15000edge01.ath11510165101:15101
Norway57865103:578

OSL

3500065102:35000edge01.osl13514465101:35144

KRS

3600065102:36000edge01.krs13614565101:36145
Denmark20865103:208

EBJ

4100065102:41000edge01.ebj14115765101:41157

CPH

3700065102:37000edge01.cph13714665101:37146
Finland24665103:246

HEL

3800065102:38000edge01.hel13814765101:38147
Switzerland75665103:756

ZRH

3300065102:33000edge01.zrh13315065101:33150
edge01.zrh23315165101:33151
edge01.zrh33315265101:33152
edge01.zrh43315365101:33153
edge01.zrh53315465101:33154
edge01.zrh63315565101:33155
edge01.zrh73315665101:33156

Northern Europe (region)

Norway 🇳🇴

Denmark 🇩🇰

Finland 🇫🇮

Germany 🇩🇪

 

 

154

 

 

65103:154

 

 

SCA

 

 

39000

    
Africa00265104:2Nigeria56665103:556LOS (AF-CIX)3400065102:34000edge01.los13414865101:34148
D.R. Congo18065103:180FIH (ACIX)4000065102:40000edge01.fih14014965101:40149

 Americas

 

 

 

019

 

 

 

65104:19

 

 

 

US US

 

 

 

840

 

 

 

65103:840

 

 

 

 NYC

200065102:2000edge01.nyc1203865101:2038
edge02.nyc1212765101:2127
edge02.nyc3208665101:2086
edge03.nyc3212865101:2128
edge02.nyc5208765101:2087
edge02.nyc6208365101:2083
edge01.nyc8205365101:2053
edge02.nyc8212465101:2124
edge02.nyc17217065101:2170

 DFW

1000065102:10000edge01.dfw11007365101:10073
edge02.dfw81010465101:10104
edge01.dfw101012365101:10123
edge01.dfw11 1013565101:10135

 ORD

2200065102:22000edge01.ord12211065101:22110
edge02.ord12211165101:22111
edge02.ord22213265101:22132
edge01.ord62212565101:22125

PHX

2700065102:27000edge01.phx12713065101:27130
edge01.phx2 2713165101:27131
edge01.phx32714365101:27143

RIC

2500065102:25000edge01.ric12511765101:25117
edge01.ric22511865101:25118
edge01.ric32511965101:25119
 Asia 142 65104:142UAE AE78465103:784

 DXB (UAE-IX)

5000 65102:5000sw001.dbx1505065101:5050
edge01.dxb1507965101:5079
edge01.dxb2508065101:5080
Turkey TR79265103:792

 IST

8000 65102:8000edge02.ist1813365101:8133
edge02.ist2815865101:8158
edge01.ist5813965101:8139

Malaysia MY

 

458

 

65103:458

 

 JHB

1700065102:17000edge01:jhb11710865101:17108
edge01.jhb21710965101:17109

 KUL

1900065102:19000edge01.kul11910665101:19106
edge01.kul21910765101:19107

PEN

4600065102:46000edge01.pen14616665101:46166
Singapore70265103:702

 SIN

 1800065102:18000edge01.sin11811365101:18113
edge01.sin21817165101:18171
Indonesia36065103:360

JKT

5300065102:53000edge01.jkt15318565101:83185
edge01.jkt25318665101:83186
Brunei09665103:96

BWN (Borneo-IX)

2100065102:21000edge01.bwn12111265101:21112
South-eastern Asia (region): Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei03565103:35

 ASE

16000    
Pakistan PK58665103:586KHI (PIE Karachi)5100065102:51000edge01.khi1  51175 65101:51175
Unknown continent 65535 65104:65535Unknown country6553565103:65535

Unknown metro

 65535 65102:65535Unknown6553565101:65535

Please note: If the exact location of a customer cannot be determined from the DE-CIX database, or in certain special cases, we tag the routes with 6510{1-4}:0, meaning "unknown".

Examples

Example 1
A prefix has the following BGP Communities attached to it:

  • 65104:150
  • 65103:276
  • 65102:3000
  • 65101:3096

From these BGP Communities you can deduce that this particular prefix has been injected in Europe (65104:150), Germany (65103:276) in metro region Munich (65102:3000) at edge02.muc1 (65101:3096).

Example 2
A prefix has the following BGP Communities attached to it:

  • 65104:142
  • 65103:792
  • 65102:8000
  • 65101:8056

From these BGP Communities you can deduce that this particular prefix has been injected in Asia (65104:142), Turkey (65103:792) in metro region Istanbul (65102:8000) at edge01.ist1 (65101:8056).

Example 3
A prefix has the following BGP Communities attached to it:

  • 65104:019
  • 65103:840
  • 65102:2000
  • 65101:2038

From these BGP Communities you can deduce that this particular prefix has been injected in Americas (65104:19), US (65103:840) in metro region New York City (65102:2000) at edge01.nyc1 (65101:2038).