Today, Cisco announced it has acquired Code BGP, a privately held BGP monitoring company based in Greece. The Code BGP team consists of renowned BGP experts who will enable Cisco ThousandEyes to expand its BGP monitoring capabilities and global, authoritative view of internet health.

BGP is an essential technology that enables the internet to function. However, the complex nature of BGP makes detecting and troubleshooting incidents difficult — particularly at the scale at which they occur.

This year alone, more than 6,000 incidents of BGP hijacks, route leaks, and other issues occurred across the many thousands of networks that make up the internet. Navigating these incidents requires quick detection and remediation to avoid downtime and protect users, making BGP visibility an essential capability for organizations that rely on the internet to connect customers, employees and business systems to applications and services.

ThousandEyes has always been committed to providing customers the most extensive and authoritative view of the internet and digital experiences across any network, which is why its founding technology and use case was focused on BGP and the need to provide visibility into internet routing.

From its beginning, Cisco's BGP visualization and alerting has enabled organizations to quickly detect and diagnose routing issues that impact the availability and security of traffic as it traverses the internet. BGP visibility also serves as a critical element of ThousandEyes’ publicly-available internet reporting and incident analyses, which provide rich, in-depth insight to the IT community on the health of the internet and key applications and services.

The addition of Code BGP to the ThousandEyes team will enrich its already accomplished pool of research and engineering talent, enabling the organization to increase its BGP monitoring capabilities and pace of innovation. The goal is to accelerate customers’ troubleshooting and optimization efforts in delivering the best possible digital experiences to users.