Computer software and hardware for use with collecting, analyzing and correlating network traffic; Computer hardware and software for use with cyber security and network security; Computer hardware and software for use with creating indices and reports that contain competitive information on the global, national and regional rankings of all Internet service providers; Computer hardware and software for use with tracking the availability and quality of routes to networks of interest; Computer hardware and software for use with providing alarms when mission critical networks become unreachable, IP addresses are hijacked, global routes are unstable or routing policies are violated; detecting attacks on the routing infrastructure; Computer hardware and software for use with monitoring Border Gateway Protocol activity and following the changes in global Internet topology to assist in peering decisions; Computer hardware and software for use with sampling and correlating data from the Internet's global routing tables, analyzing that data, generating graphic reports based on that data, and exporting that data to other software applications