BGP Explained | How the Global Internet Stays Connected

The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is the postal service of the Internet. When someone drops a letter into a mailbox, the Postal Service looks at the address and chooses a fast, efficient route to deliver that letter. BGP does the same for the Internet. The Internet is a network of networks. It’s made up of hundreds of thousands of individual networks known as Autonomous Systems (AS) . BGP is the…