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The digital planet: the internet's physical and logical fabric

The digital group maps the internet itself — both the cables in the ground and the routes in the sky. Submarine cables from TeleGeography trace the fibre that carries nearly all intercontinental traffic; data centers and exchange points from PeeringDB mark where networks physically meet. Over the top, live BGP routing events from WorldIP.io surface the internet's control plane in real time — route leaks and possible hijacks, prefix withdrawals, bogons and RPKI-invalid announcements — while country-level internet disruptions come from Cloudflare Radar and IODA (Georgia Tech / CAIDA). Enable the whole group and you can watch an outage ripple across a country at the same time you see the cables and exchanges that route around it. Click any cable, facility or routing event to inspect it, with a link to deeper analysis (e.g. the prefix or AS on bgp.tools). One of four theme groups; solo any layer or view them all on the homepage.

What's in the digital group?

Submarine cables, data centers & IXPs, live BGP routing events (leaks/hijacks/withdrawals/bogons/RPKI), and country-level internet outages from two independent detectors — each a toggleable layer, shown together here.

Where does the data come from?

TeleGeography (cables), PeeringDB (facilities), WorldIP.io (BGP/RIR events), Cloudflare Radar and IODA/CAIDA (outages). All open or public feeds, polled server-side.

What are BGP routing events?

BGP is the protocol that decides how traffic reaches every network. Anomalies — leaks, hijacks, mass withdrawals, bogons, RPKI-invalids — can reroute or black-hole traffic, so they're worth watching live.