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Over the years, I have seen a number of traces between Airtel (AS9498) and Tata Comm (AS4755) in India, which strongly suggests that routing tends to be βcold potatoβ between them. By default, routing between large backbones that interconnect across different locations is typically βhot potatoβ - meaning traffic exits to other ASNs as close to the source as possible
Last month (on 18th April 2026), I saw an alert for a strange route announcement:
117.120.58.0/23 262427 262761 263444 6453 3257 55836 9498 134863 134863While this specific alert triggered because it had three large Indian backbones - Tata Comm (AS6453), Jio (AS55836) and Airtel (AS9498) and normally this would appear just as a leak by J...
Since 20:08 IST / 14:38 GMT on 28 Jan 2026, the latency between Airtel India and Europe has gone up along with significant packet loss.
Hereβs an example of shortlist 300+ endpoints from Airtel India with European endpoints:
Traceroutes Airtel Haryana -> Contabo Europe Start: 2026-01-29T03:52:33+0530 HOST: desktop Loss% Snt Last Avg Best...