# Border Gateway Protocol

Skill · IT Infrastructure and Networking

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/border-gateway-protocol

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is the routing protocol that manages how data packets are directed between autonomous systems on the internet, effectively acting as the internet's core routing mechanism. Network engineers and ISPs configure BGP to determine the best paths for traffic and to exchange routing information between networks.

Related skills: [OSPF](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/ospf), [TCP/IP](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/tcp-ip), [Routing Protocols](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/routing-protocols), [Network Engineering](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/network-engineering)

## Open roles requiring Border Gateway Protocol (0)

None of the roles we have read name this skill yet. A large share of the visible corpus has not been parsed for skills, so this is at least as likely to be our backlog as the market's verdict.