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Layout Showing the Major ISPs

Frequent traceroute-style path probes are used to build a tree showing the paths to most of the nets on the Internet. Once the layout is computed, the map can be colored to show geographical clues, network capacity, or IP addresses. In this example, color distinguishes different ISPs.

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