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DescriptionBGP Table growth.svg	English: Global BGP Table size, 1988–2024 Français : Croissance de la table BGP mondiale de 1988–2024
Date	26 May 2009
Source	Based on the data from the CIDR report by T. Bates et al.
Author	Mro (talk · contribs), Bombenleger (talk · contribs)
Other versions	Arabic (العربيّة)

Data copied from https://bgp.potaroo.net/as2.0/bgp-active.txt

Pages with the graphs of the data and other content: https://bgp.potaroo.net/as2.0/bgp-active.html, https://www.cidr-report.org/as2.0/

iThe source code of this SVG is valid.

This plot was created with Gnuplot.

gnuplot source

set terminal svg size 600,480 font 'arial,16'
set output 'BGP_Table_growth.svg'

set title 'IPv4 prefixes announced on the Internet'
set key off

set xlabel 'Date'
set xdata time
set xtics timedate
set xtics format "%Y"
set timefmt "%Y-%m-%d"
set xrange ["1988-01-01":"2025-01-01"]
set xtics time "1988-01-01", 4 years, "2026-01-01"
set mxtics time 1 years

set ylabel 'Number of prefixes'
set format y "%.0f"

set grid xtics lc rgb 'gray40'
set grid ytics lc rgb 'gray40'

set timefmt "%s"    # (seconds since 1970-01-01)
plot "bgp-active.txt" using 1:2 smooth acsplines with lines linecolor rgb 'red' linewidth 1.5

unset output
unset terminal

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	01:43, 4 July 2024	600 × 480 (29 KB)	A876	updated to 2024-07-03. creeping closer to 100,000.
	15:48, 22 November 2020	600 × 480 (29 KB)	Bombenleger	updated with data from 2020-11-22
	10:55, 25 January 2015	600 × 480 (28 KB)	Mro	Update 2015-01
	15:06, 5 January 2014	600 × 480 (30 KB)	Mro	Update
	07:42, 7 October 2013	600 × 480 (28 KB)	Mro	Update 2013-10
	08:42, 1 June 2013	600 × 480 (28 KB)	Mro	update
	17:48, 9 January 2013	600 × 480 (27 KB)	Mro	Update 2013-01
	11:26, 17 April 2012	600 × 480 (32 KB)	Mro	Update 2012-04
	07:50, 2 December 2011	600 × 480 (30 KB)	Mro	update 2011-12
	08:27, 3 September 2011	600 × 480 (30 KB)	Mro	update 201109