Collapsing many adjacent network prefixes into one summary route.

BGP aggregation shrinks the routing table

Aggregation replaces a set of adjacent prefixes with one covering announcement, so every peer downstream stores one entry instead of dozens and stops processing updates for each component. The table gets smaller, and the churn of a flapping edge stops propagating outward. ...

October 8, 2027 · 4 min · XB Field Notes