Border Gateway Protocol

nounverified·updated May 9, 2026

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An inter-autonomous system routing protocol. BGP is used to exchange routing information for the Internet and is the protocol used between Internet service providers (ISP).

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Classifications

per-axis with provenance

Entity Type

Network95%rule-basedr:entity.network.gear.v1

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Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

4 surface forms

acronym: BGP
plural: Border Gateway Protocols
possessive: Border Gateway Protocol's
pluralpossessive: Border Gateway Protocols'

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