Lately, I have been struggling to keep latency in check between my servers in India and Europe. Since Nov 2021 multiple submarine cables are down impacting significant capacity between Europe & India. The impact was largely on Airtel earlier but…
Tag: Level3
Understanding the game of bandwidth pricing
I thought about this long back – “Who pays to whom in case of internet bandwidth?” I have been working in this domain from sometime and so far I have learnt that it’s really complex. I will try to put…
AS Number hijacking due to misconfiguration
This Sunday I was looking at global routing table dump and found AS1 announcing some very weird prefixes. AS1 i.e Autonomous System Number 1 belongs to Level3 but as far as I know they are not actively using…
BSNL-Level3 bad routing case
Quick analysis of BSNL-Level3 bad routing issue I can see BSNL having pretty high latency again with most of Europe again. It seems like they are using Level3 Communications AS 3356 along with Tata-VSNL for upstream. With Level3 transit…