[dx034]

> the most peered network on the planet

That's a bold claim. I'd expect Akamai, Google and Amazon to be peered at more locations, maybe even more. Or have they become that big?

[jgrahamc]

Yes. We are that big.

https://bgp.he.net/report/exchanges#_participants

[bogomipz]

"Most peered"?

Another day another dubious Cloudflare marketing claim.

Participating in the most IXs does not mean you have the most BGP peers. Simply participating in an IX does not mean that every other participating network at that IX automatically agrees to peer with you. Using AMS-IX as an example:

"Every member or customer at AMS-IX is in the position to peer with any or all other connected ISP's although they are not required to"[1]

And this is pretty standard across all IXs.

For instance Facebook might be far down that chart regarding the number of IX fabrics they peer at but if 99% of of the participants at those agree to peer with them there then they are likely "more peered" than you.

[1] https://ams-ix.net/faqs

[dx034]

But this only counts IX peers I guess? Google, Amazon, Facebook will peer privately with most ISPs.

[NicoJuicy]

Who is hurricane electric?

[somecoder]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Electric