Welcome to Sparkle's Looking Glass
It provides a snapshot of the current performance of Seabone, our global IP backbone AS 6762, as well as of Sparkle's GRX network, selectable through the "Network" field. This looking glass is provided as a courtesy and should only be used to verify reachability. In fact, as ICMP traffic is handled on routers with low priority, this tool is not intended for use in measuring SLAs.
The tool may be temporarily unavailable due to scheduled maintenance.
Ping and traceroute queries, across all networks, are managed by routers with a lower priority than normal traffic to protect infrastructures and backbones. Therefore, if occasional packet drops occur and are observed, this must be considered normal behavior and is not evidence of potential degradation; as such, it does not represent a reason for complaint.
Allows you to select the network on which the query is performed: IP (Seabone, AS 6762) or GRX. The list of available routers is updated according to the selected network. IP is selected by default.
- Ping: Shows the response time between the source router and the destination IP address entered in the parameters field.
- Show IP BGP: Allows you to see the routes available from the selected router to the destination IP address entered in the parameters field.
- Show IP route: Displays the current state of the routing table for the selected prefix.
- Traceroute: Allows you to view the path taken by packets across an IP network between the source router and the destination IP address entered in the parameters field.
Sparkle supports a set of BGP communities that allow customers to tune their traffic without requiring manual intervention on the Sparkle network.
Details are available on the following pages: