Route collectors

Route collectors are the physical machines where RIS ingests BGP routing data. We receive this data via BGP peering sessions. Most route collectors collect data from peers at IXP peering LANs that the route collectors are physically attached to. We also have 'multi-hop' route collectors, which collect BGP data from peers via BGP multi-hop sessions. The advantage of multi-hop BGP sessions is that data collection is not restricted to networks that are attached to the same peering LANs as the RIS collector. Instead, these sessions can be established with us from all over the world.

Or route collectors have names that start with 'RRC' and end with a number. Starting at 00 and (as of this writing) up to 26. We typically add a small number of route collectors every year.

For route collectors that are attached to IXP peering LANs we keep our PeeringDB record (opens new window) up to date, so this serves as the authoritative source for what peering LANs we can establish BGP peering sessions on, ie. where networks can directly peer with us.

Our active multi-hop collectors and their meta-data is listed below:

Name	Physical Location	Type	Scope	Raw Data	Sponsors
RRC00	Amsterdam, NL	multihop	global	data (opens new window)	RIPE NCC (opens new window)
RRC01	London, GB	IXP	LINX, LONAP	data (opens new window)	LINX (opens new window), LONAP (opens new window)
RRC03	Amsterdam, NL	IXP	AMS-IX, NL-IX	data (opens new window)	AMS-IX (opens new window), NL-IX (opens new window)
RRC04	Geneva, CH	IXP	CIXP	data (opens new window)	CERN (opens new window)
RRC05	Vienna, AT	IXP	VIX	data (opens new window)	VIX (opens new window)
RRC06	Otemachi, JP	IXP	DIX-IE, JPIX	data (opens new window)	RIPE NCC (opens new window)
RRC07	Stockholm, SE	IXP	Netnod	data (opens new window)	NETNOD (opens new window)
RRC10	Milan, IT	IXP	MIX	data (opens new window)	MIX (opens new window)
RRC11	New York, NY, US	IXP	NYIIX	data (opens new window)	Telehouse (opens new window), GTT (opens new window)
RRC12	Frankfurt, DE	IXP	DE-CIX	data (opens new window)	DE-CIX (opens new window)
RRC13	Moscow, RU	IXP	MSK-IX	data (opens new window)	MSK-IX (opens new window)
RRC14	Palo Alto, CA, US	IXP	PAIX	data (opens new window)	Equinix (opens new window)
RRC15	Sao Paolo, BR	IXP	PTTMetro-SP	data (opens new window)	IX.br (opens new window)
RRC16	Miami, FL, US	IXP	Equinix Miami	data (opens new window)	RIPE NCC (opens new window)
RRC18	Barcelona, ES	IXP	CATNIX	data (opens new window)	CATNIX (opens new window)
RRC19	Johannesburg, ZA	IXP	NAP Africa JB	data (opens new window)	Network Platforms (opens new window)
RRC20	Zurich, CH	IXP	SwissIX	data (opens new window)	SWISS-IX (opens new window)
RRC21	Paris, FR	IXP	France-IX Paris and France-IX Marseille	data (opens new window)	France-IX (opens new window)
RRC22	Bucharest, RO	IXP	Interlan	data (opens new window)	InterLAN (opens new window)
RRC23	Singapore, SG	IXP	Equinix Singapore	data (opens new window)	Equinix (opens new window)
RRC24	Montevideo, UY	multihop	LACNIC region	data (opens new window)	LACNIC (opens new window)
RRC25	Amsterdam, NL	multihop	global	data (opens new window)	RIPE NCC (opens new window)
RRC26	Dubai, AE	IXP	UAE-IX	data (opens new window)	Datamena (opens new window), UAE-IX (opens new window)

Historic route collectors are listed in this table:

Name	Physical Location	Type	Scope	Raw Data
RRC02	Paris, FR	IXP	SFINX	data (opens new window)
RRC08	San Jose, CA, US	IXP	MAE-WEST	data (opens new window)
RRC09	Zurich, CH	IXP	TIX	data (opens new window)

Locations are also available in dns LOC records

RIPEstat includes a metadata call with more information: https://stat.ripe.net/docs/data_api#rrc-info

We also have a list of peers per RRC: https://www.ris.ripe.net/peerlist/all.shtml

BGP Timer settings

Since BGP Timer settings influence data collection we document their settings here:

BGP Timer settings since 23 November 2006:

• Keepalives: 60 seconds
• Holddown: 180 seconds

BGP Timer settings between 17 October 2002 and 23 November 2006:

• Keepalives: 0 (disabled)
• Holddown: 0 (disabled)

BGP Timer settings before 17 October 2002:

• Keepalives: 60 seconds
• Holddown: 180 seconds