Route origin
The route server will mark all routes with certain BGP Communities to indicate their origin. You can use this information to determine where a certain route has been injected into the DE-CIX switching platform. This gives you the option to filter routes learned from the route servers based on geographical location.
Currently we mark the following information:
Switch: Indicates at which switch a route has been injected into the DE-CIX platform. We tag the corresponding edge switch.
- Example: edge03.fra12
Metro: The metropolitan region corresponding to the switch.
- Example: Frankfurt
Country: The country corresponding to the above (UN M49 format).
- Example: Germany
Continent: The continent corresponding to the above (UN M49 format).
- Example: Europe
This means that every route you will learn from the route servers will have four (additional) BGP Communities attached which indicate location information.