Assume AS65001 is some form of content provider, which means it offers some service such as bare metal compute, cloud services, search engines, social media, etc. Customers from AS65006 are connecting to its servers, located on the 100::/64 network, which generates a large amount of traffic returning to the customers. From the perspective of AS hops, it appears the path from AS65001 to AS65006 is the same length—if this is true, AS65001 does not have any reason to choose one path or another (given there is no measurable performance difference, as in the cases described above from AS65006’s perspective). However, the AS hop count does not accurately describe the geographic distances involved...

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