Projects using Bird as routing engine

[Mathew Heard]

I don't know if it counts as what you are after but we use bird for

our worldwide BGP
looking glass project (as well as for our own uses).

https://hyperglass.x4b.net/

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On Wed, 19 Oct 2022 at 01:19, Douglas Fischer via Bird-users
<bird-users at trubka.network.cz> wrote:
>
> I don't know if such a thing already exists...
> But I thought it would be interesting to have some kind of survey of projects that use BIRD at some point in their structure.
>
> I know for example that http://projectcalico.org/ uses BIRD as a routing engine.
> Or that https://bsdrp.net/ has the possibility to use FRR or BIRD as a routing engine.
>
> I think it's worth mentioning that Bird has a presence in route-collectors projects... But which ones? Where?
>
> In IXP? Well... This is BIRD land.
> I think we can estimate that more than 80% of IXPs use BIRD as the Route-Servers engine.
> I remember seeing a place that said which route-servers from which IXPs ran with which BGP engine. But I couldn't find that link easily.
>
> But still within the scope of IXPs and Route-Servers, there are projects like https://www.ixpmanager.org/ based on the framework it provides to those who adopt it.
> As well as BIRD appears to be the main choose engine at https://github.com/pierky/arouteserver .
>
> Is it worth mentioning BIRD being used by Netflix in Open Connect Appliances?
>
> I remember recently seeing a project for an Internet Transit Provider system, but I don't remember the name of the blessed project.
>
> Does anyone else remember anything else that uses BIRD?
> Would it be interesting to put this information on some public page?
>
> --
> Douglas Fernando Fischer
> Engº de Controle e Automação