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
With contributions from network operators and volunteers all over the world, RouteViews collects BGP data by direct peering at Internet Exchange Points (IXPs) or multi-hop peering. Data are archived and made publicly available for download at archive.routeviews.org, lg.routeviews.org, and api.routeviews.org.
Use of the data created and owned by RouteViews (“RouteViews Data”) 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 for use of the data. If you use RouteViews data for research and publications of any kind, please acknowledge the source by using the RouteViews Digital Object Identifier (DOI).
For citations, the DOI is 10.7264/1y7v-2d90
If you would like to add the RouteViews logo to your paper or web site to acknowledge use of RouteViews data, please obtain a copy of the logo at https://www.routeviews.org/routeviews/logos/
We maintain a searchable list of RouteViews citations in over 1000 peer-reviewed research papers.
Commercial Terms of Use for RouteViews Data
Commercial Terms of Use apply when selling services, products, reports, or other derivative works based on RouteViews Data. Please review the full Commercial Terms of Use statement for complete details regarding attribution and redistribution.
