Cisco enhances ThousandEyes’ BGP capabilities with Code BGP Acquisition

Cisco has revealed its acquisition of Code BGP, a privately held company hailing from Greece that specializes in monitoring the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). By integrating the expertise of the Code BGP team, renowned for their BGP proficiency, Cisco aims to enhance the BGP monitoring capabilities of ThousandEyes. This strategic move will result in an expanded, globally encompassing perspective on Internet health.

The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) stands as a crucial technology underpinning the functionality of the Internet. Yet, due to its intricate nature, identifying and resolving incidents involving BGP proves challenging, especially given their magnitude. In the present year alone, over 6,000 instances of BGP hijacking, route leaks, and related issues have occurred across the vast network landscape that constitutes the Internet. Swift detection and remediation are imperative to prevent downtime and ensure user protection. Thus, BGP visibility becomes an indispensable attribute for organizations reliant on the Internet to link customers, employees, and business systems to applications and services.

ThousandEyes has maintained an unwavering commitment to furnishing customers with a comprehensive, authoritative vantage point of the Internet and digital encounters across diverse networks. This commitment is epitomized by its foundational focus on BGP, as well as the necessity of offering visibility into Internet routing.

From its inception, ThousandEyes has empowered organizations with BGP visualization and alerting tools, allowing them to rapidly pinpoint and address Internet routing complications that impede the availability and security of data traversing the global network. Furthermore, BGP visibility plays a pivotal role in ThousandEyes’ publicly accessible Internet reports and incident analyses. These reports provide profound insights to the IT community concerning Internet health and the status of vital applications and services.

The incorporation of Code BGP into the ThousandEyes fold will augment the company’s already accomplished cadre of Internet research and engineering talent. This strategic addition will enable ThousandEyes to heighten its BGP monitoring capabilities and accelerate its pace of innovation. As a result, ThousandEyes will be better poised to expedite troubleshooting and optimization endeavors, thereby enhancing the delivery of top-tier digital experiences to users.

The Code BGP team brings a wealth of expertise and practical research acumen in the realms of Internet routing and measurement. The founders’ research contributions have graced esteemed conferences and journals, including ACM SIGCOMM, ACM Internet Measurement Conference, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Science Magazine, and IEEE INFOCOM. Additionally, these individuals played an instrumental role in developing the ARTEMIS open-source software designed for real-time BGP prefix hijacking detection and mitigation. Analogously, Code BGP’s monitoring solution boasts real-time capabilities in detecting BGP hijacking, route leaks, and RPKI issues.