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We using heavily BGP communities to control our traffic between PoPs, regions, locations and customers. All communties are large BGP communities. Extended communties are not used.

Community String Type / Description Locations
212895:0:1 Router oslo1.no global
212895:0:2 Router ams1.nl global
212895:0:3 Router dus1.de global
212895:0:4 Router dus2.de global
212895:0:5 Router fra1.de global
212895:0:6 Router van1.ca global
212895:0:7 Router fra2.de global
212895:0:8 Router kcm1.us global
212895:0:9 Router ams2.nl global
212895:0:10 Router sin1.sg global
212895:0:11 Router pom1.it global
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212895:1:1 Routes from transit providers global
212895:1:2 Routes from transit providers / not for downstreams global
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212895:100:1 Transit AS56655 global
212895:100:2 Transit AS50673 global
212895:100:3 Transit AS6939 global
212895:100:4 Transit AS29632 global
212895:100:5 Transit AS56630 global
212895:100:6 Transit AS50058 global
212895:100:7 Transit AS8849 global
212895:100:8 Transit AS212271 global
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212895:200:1 Transit routes from Frankfurt, DE global
212895:200:2 Transit routes from Amsterdam, NL global
212895:200:3 Transit routes from Düsseldorf, DE global
212895:200:4 Transit routes from München, DE global
212895:200:5 Transit routes from Hamburg, DE global
212895:200:6 Transit routes from Oslo, NO global
212895:200:7 Transit routes from Vancouver, CA global
212895:200:8 Transit routes from Kansas City, US global
212895:200:9 Transit routes from Singapore, SG global
212895:200:10 Transit routes from Pomezia, IT global
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212895:2:1 Routes from direct peerings global
212895:200:ASN Routes from direct peerings global
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212895:3:1 Routes from Internet Exchanges global
212895:300:1 Routes from Internet Exchanges: LocIX FRA Frankfurt, DE
212895:300:2 Routes from Internet Exchanges: UNM Vancouver, CA
212895:300:3 Routes from Internet Exchanges: Speed-IX NL Amsterdam, NL
212895:300:4 Routes from Internet Exchanges: KleyRex Frankfurt, DE
212895:300:5 Routes from Internet Exchanges: LocIX DUS Düsseldorf, DE
212895:300:6 Routes from Internet Exchanges: NL-IX Frankfurt, DE
212895:300:7 Routes from Internet Exchanges: DE-CIX DUS Düsseldorf, DE
212895:300:8 Routes from Internet Exchanges: DE-CIX MUN München, DE
212895:300:9 Routes from Internet Exchanges: DE-CIX HAM Hamburg, DE
212895:300:10 Routes from Internet Exchanges: FSIX Oslo, NO
212895:300:11 Routes from Internet Exchanges: ROPN-IX Bukarest, RO
212895:300:12 Routes from Internet Exchanges: Seattle IX Seattle, US
212895:300:13 Routes from Internet Exchanges: ERA-IX Amsterdam, NL
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212895:4:1 Routes from premium transit providers global
212895:4:2 Routes from bulk transit providers global
212895:4:3 Routes from transit without AS-SET validation global
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212895:5:1 Direct peers / for downstreams global
212895:5:2 Direct peers / not for downstreams global
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212895:555:0 Validated IPv4 customer routes global
212895:555:1 Validated IPv6 customer routes global
212895:556:1 RPKI validated customer route with state valid global
212895:556:2 RPKI validated customer route with state not found global
212895:556:3 RPKI validated customer route with state invalid global
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212895:600:1 Received routes from Frankfurt, DE Frankfurt, DE
212895:600:2 Received routes from Düsseldorf, DE Düsseldorf, DE
212895:600:3 Received routes from Oslo, NO Oslo, NO
212895:600:4 Received routes from Amsterdam, NL Amsterdam, NL
212895:600:5 Received routes from München, DE München, DE
212895:600:6 Received routes from Hamburg, DE Hamburg, DE
212895:600:7 Received routes from Vancouver, CA Vancouver, CA
212895:600:8 Received routes from Kansas City, US Kansas City, US
212895:600:9 Received routes from Singapore, SG Singapore, SG
212895:600:10 Received routes from Bukarest, RO Bukarest, RO
212895:600:11 Received routes from Seattle, US Seattle, US
212895:600:12 Received routes from Pomezia, IT Pomezia, IT
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212895:700:0 Learned via IBGP route reflectors Region all global
212895:700:1 Learned via IBGP route reflectors Region Europe Europe
212895:700:2 Learned via IBGP route reflectors Region North America North America
212895:700:3 Learned via IBGP route reflectors Region Asia Asia
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212895:1:666 Blackhole community global
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65500:212895:1 Block advertisment in Europe global
65500:212895:2 Block advertisment in Americas global
65500:212895:3 Block advertisment in Asia global
65500:212895:1000 Block advertisment to AS56655 Oslo, NO
65500:212895:1001 Block advertisment to AS56655 Amsterdam, NL



We are doing strict RPKI filtering from routes that we receiving from our customer peers. Validated routes are tagged with large community 212895:556:1 & 212895:555:1 and distributed to our peers, downstreams and upstreams.