Gigabit American advanced networks: emulation of the 2024 backbone topology under IPv6
Jose-Ignacio Castillo-Velázquez, Nelly-Guadalupe Velazquez-Cruz · IET conference proceedings. · 2025
Time in time, Internet Service Providers around the world make updates in backbone topology and infrastructure, it includes de commercial Internet and the Internet 2, also known as advanced networks or national research and education networks. Previous works offered the connectivity and management emulation of the backbone network for CANARIE, INTERNET2 and CLARA, the three advanced networks in America for Canada, USA and Latin American under IPv4 for the 2019 topology. In this the work some updates are offered, this way it is considered the connectivity and management emulation for the four backbone networks under IPv6 for the updated topology up to 2024 and updates for BGP-4 for Autonomous Systems in 2024, also is indicated the use of virtual machines and IReasoning MIB Browser software for the network management. When integrating the three topologies, the backbone network resulting covers 13 countries in the continent. The resulting emulations review the management assessment and topology show how some topologies are evolving in case of CANARIE and INTERNET2, but CLARA is having some difficult to maintain the same countries connected, some of the decisions are taken based on the use and development of strategic projects. These results could be useful for next upgrades and the grow of the advanced networks in the continent.