Oracle launches internet routing 3D visualization tool

Every year, there are multiple reports of internet routing outages or attacks that significantly disrupt internet traffic. Typically, these incidents are measured by the number of IP address prefixes impacted. Last year, for instance, when a Verizon error triggered widespread internet outages, one estimate said that 20,000 IP addresses were affected. However, this single data point doesn't give the most accurate picture of a routing outage's impact, according to Oracle's Internet Intelligence group. It doesn't account for the percentage of networks that have accepted the misrouted traffic (the propagation of the leak), and it doesn't account for the duration of the leak.