Internet Exchange Visualization

Tue Aug 15 17:03:52 UTC 2023

On Tue, Aug 15, 2023 at 8:24 AM Thomas Beer <thomas.beer at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All!
>
> Has anybody a link to a cost-free service for visualizations of internet
> exchange inter-connections?
>
> Thanks & cheers
> Tom
>

Hi Tom,

There's a couple of different ways of interpreting your question, which
will impact the answers you get.

You might mean "exchange inter-connections" as "how are the different
internet exchanges connected to each other?"
in which case the answer is generally "through the Internet".  ^_^;

You might instead be thinking of "how are different participants in a
single internet exchange cross-connected to
each other?"  -- in which case the answer is "through in-building wiring
that often even the building owner isn't
entirely aware of what path the connections are taking."   ^_^;

You might also be asking about BGP relationships, not physical connections,
in which case mining route-views,
RIPE, and other BGP data sources, along with PeeringDB will allow you to
see a percentage of the picture, though
not the entire model.

You might also be asking about "visualization" in the sense of "looking at
traffic volumes across interconnections",
at which point you're whistling in the dark; other than the aggregate
traffic volume visualization that some exchanges
provide, nobody is sharing their traffic graphs externally, sorry.

So, the first step to getting a meaningful answer is to clarify your
question a bit more.
Are you asking about interconnections *between* internet exchanges, or
interconnections *within* a single exchange?
Are you looking for physical layer interconnection information, or logical
(BGP neighbor) interconnection information?
Are you just looking for a binary "does an interconnection relationship
exist", or are you looking to visualize traffic volumes across that
relationship?

If you can provide a bit more clarity in what you're looking for, we'll
have a better idea of how exactly to tell you you're out of luck.   ^_^;

Thanks!

Matt
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