Mid-thought: I want to describe a routing failure that sent my customers' traffic through 15 countries. A world tour. My customers suffered.
My British IPTV service had extreme latency at 3 AM. I traced the route. UK to France to Germany to Poland to Russia to China to Japan to USA to Canada to UK. 15 countries. 30,000 miles. My traffic was touring the world.
Here's the thing — BGP route leaks can be complex. Multi-country. Multi-hop. Your traffic travels thousands of extra miles.
What actually works is using BGP monitoring services and multiple network providers.
The pattern that keeps showing up is that BGP route leaks are common. Your British IPTV business needs network diversity.
The 3 AM BGP route leak taught me to diversify my network.
A loose sentence: Your traffic should not take a world tour. Keep it local.