What Is Bgp And Why Does The Internet Depend On It
What Exactly Is BGP Anyway? Several very apt metaphors have been used in recent articles to explain BGP. People have likened it to everything from an air traffic controller to a constantly evolving map of the internet. It’s even been called “the duct tape of the internet.” And they’re all right. BGP is the protocol that tells data requests what path they need to take to reach the server. If, for example, you log in to Facebook or open the app to pull up your feed, BGP is what guides your data packet along the fastest route to retrieve that data for you from Facebook’s servers....