RouteViews provides detailed visibility into the global Internet routing system by archiving Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) routing data from thousands of collaborative networks around the world utilizing unique Autonomous System Numbers (ASNs). RouteViews operates a platform of route collectors deployed strategically at Internet Exchange Points (IXPs) and partner networks worldwide. These collectors peer with Internet Service Providers, IXPs, academic networks, backbone providers, and hyperscalers to gain diverse perspectives of the global routing table.
RouteViews publicly preserves one of the bedrock sources for understanding and analyzing how the Internet evolved during the global expansion phase from the 1990s to today. It's the oldest and most comprehensive BGP data archive in the world that documents the Internet's evolution, second by second, in continuous time.
Our focus is to archive global routing information so network operators, researchers, educators and policy makers can use the data to better analyze, troubleshoot, and secure the Internet’s core infrastructure. Internet routing security is critical for the health, stability, and reliability of the global Internet. Localized adoption and implementation of modern routing security techniques in more networks spanning more countries improves global routing security, and subsequently the interoperation of the many thousands of networks around the world that form the Internet. In essence, RouteViews functions as a publicly available, multi-perspective looking glass and data archive of the Internet's routing system to support efficient network operations and Internet measurements over time.
Core Functions and Benefits
RouteViews is supported by the Network Startup Resource Center at the University of Oregon. We work with colleagues at the RIPE Routing Information Service (RIS) in Europe to coordinate what we learn about real-world Internet routing with the objective of creating data redundancy, resiliency, and maximizing visibility of the Internet’s global routing table.
Publications that Utilize RouteViews Data
While the RouteViews project was originally motivated by interest on the part of Internet operators in determining how the global routing system viewed their prefixes and/or AS space, there are many other interesting uses of RouteViews data. Click here to view a searchable list of RouteViews citations in over 1000 peer-reviewed research papers.
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For citations, our DOI is 10.7264/1y7v-2d90
The data created by RouteViews is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). This means you are generally free to use RouteViews data for network operations and research, provided that you give attribution to RouteViews (routeviews.org) for use of the data. For attribution compliance, you must give appropriate credit for research or commercial use, provide a link to the license and RouteViews archive (routeviews.org), and indicate if you made any changes to the data. For peer-reviewed research and publications, please cite the DOI reference listed above. If you would like to add the RouteViews logo to your paper or web site to acknowledge the source, please obtain a copy of the logo here: https://www.routeviews.org/routeviews/logos/
