Neotel

Routing Crunch: Reliance-Flagtel to Neotel South Africa

Anurag Bhatia

Quick traceroute between Reliance and Neotel (South African subsidiary of Tata Communications)

Using Reliance Mumbai node: 

You requested a Traceroute from Mumbai (62.216.135.130) to neotel.co.za (41.168.1.110) 

   1 ge-0-2-0.0.pjr02.mmb004.flagtel.com (85.95.25.70) 80.252 ms 79.822 ms 79.737 ms  
   MPLS Label=351552 CoS=0 TTL=1 S=1  
   2 so-1-3-0.0.pjr02.hkg005.flagtel.com (85.95.25.118) 79.688 ms 79.717 ms 79.779 ms  
   MPLS Label=301328 CoS=0 TTL=1 S=1  
   3 so-5-0-0.0.cjr04.hkg003.flagtel.com (85.95.25.214) 79.790 ms 81.271 ms 84.868 ms  
   MPLS Label=300272 CoS=0 TTL=1 S=1  
   4 xe-1-2-0.0.cji01.hkg003.flagtel.com (62.216.128.66) 79.504 ms 79.587 ms 79.452 ms  
   5 62.216.145.194 (62.216.145.194) 85.660 ms 79.769 ms *  
   6 if-2-0-0-1123.core3.HK2-HongKong.as6453.net (216.6.95.137) [AS 6453] 79.930 ms 79.884 ms 79.775 ms  
   7 180.87.15.81 (180.87.15.81) [AS 6453] 295.413 ms 295.675 ms 295.695 ms  
   MPLS Label=300800 CoS=0 TTL=1 S=1  
   8 if-5-2.tcore2.CXR-Chennai.as6453.net (180.87.15.70) [AS 6453] 296.944 ms if-2-2.tcore1.SVW-Singapore.as6453.net (180.87.12.1) [AS 6453] 311.951 ms 311.784 ms  
   MPLS Label=299968 CoS=0 TTL=1 S=1  
   9 if-3-3.tcore1.CXR-Chennai.as6453.net (180.87.36.5) [AS 6453] 311.636 ms if-5-2.tcore1.CXR-Chennai.as6453.net (180.87.12.54) [AS 6453] 312.689 ms 312.041 ms  
   MPLS Label=300688 CoS=0 TTL=1 S=1  
  10 if-4-0-0.core1.CFO-Chennai.as6453.net (180.87.36.18) [AS 6453] 144.922 ms if-15-1-0.core1.CFO-Chennai.as6453.net (180.87.36.14) [AS 6453] 145.223 ms if-4-0-0.core1.CFO-Chennai.as6453.net (180.87.36.18) [AS 6453] 144.627 ms  
   MPLS Label=1578 CoS=0 TTL=1 S=1  
  11 116.0.86.1 (116.0.86.1) [AS 6453] 155.796 ms 155.857 ms 154.918 ms  
   MPLS Label=3107 CoS=0 TTL=1 S=1  
  12 116.0.86.30 (116.0.86.30) [AS 6453] 341.019 ms 312.304 ms 322.348 ms  
   MPLS Label=306816 CoS=0 TTL=1 S=1  
  13 if-2-2.tcore1.JSO-Johannesburg.as6453.net (216.6.55.85) [AS 6453] 312.133 ms 311.860 ms 311.718 ms  
  14 216.6.55.38 (216.6.55.38) [AS 6453] 324.450 ms 295.062 ms 296.033 ms  
  15 41.160.0.243 (41.160.0.243) [AS 36937] 312.371 ms 313.074 ms 311.998 ms  
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So it’s like Mumbai-India-Reliance | Hong Kong-Reliance | Hong Kong - Tata | Chennai -India-Tata | Somewhere in middle-Europe | Johannesburg - Tata