Lima · Peru

Peering in Lima concentrates in PIT - Peru - Lima, whose 90 participants are more than three times the 26 at JumboIX Peru. BGP.Exchange - Lima and Conex - IXP hold 10 participants each, ONIX PERU 5, Nap Peru and RPCI 4 each, and the PIT Lima - PIT Chile interconnect 3. Facility counts run smaller. EdgeUno Datacenter Lima Peru (LIM1) and GTD Peru Data Center list 8 networks each, PIT Peru Manuel Olguin PIX 7, and the two Internexa sites 5 and 4. The exchange records flag two participants as carrier ASNs, AS6568 at PIT - Peru - Lima and AS28024 at JumboIX Peru.

An address that a database places in Lima often comes from a network whose registry record simply gives a Lima address. Operators register blocks once and announce them from whichever routers they choose, so a range held by a national carrier can reach subscribers elsewhere in Peru while every lookup still reads Lima. Mobile addresses stretch this further, because handsets leave through a small number of gateways and the geolocation database copies the location the operator publishes for the block rather than the cell the phone attaches to.

Someone checking a Lima address should read the origin ASN and the netname on the specific prefix instead of the city label. Those two fields name the network announcing the block and the organisation it is registered to, which is the part an operator controls directly. Where that ASN also appears in one of the city's participant lists, the 90 at PIT - Peru - Lima or the 26 at JumboIX Peru, the network has a documented presence in Lima. Where it does not, the city string rests on the registry record alone.