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title: "Announcing your shiny new AMPRNet BGP allocation" 
description: "A crash course on BGP for radio people"
date: 2023-03-21
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  excerpt: "This post is a quick guide to announcing your shiny new AMPRNet BGP allocation"
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So, you got yourself a shiny new [AMPRNet](https://ampr.org) BGP allocation. What's next?

Well, from experience, many people choose to email me next asking for advice. This post is that advice, now in *:sparkles:easily Google-able form!:sparkles:*

A surprising number of people seem to request BGP allocations without understanding what BGP is in the first place, so, lets start there.

## An ultra-crash course to BGP

The internet *inter-networks networks*. Or, in less confusing terms: the internet is a broad term for how network **A** can communicate with networks **B** and **C**.

![](/images/posts/amprnet-bgp-announce/internet_1.svg)