Network design

Wikimedia infrastructure

Data centers

Networking

• Network design
• Peering
• LVS
• IP and AS allocations
• Network cheat sheet
• Wikimedia network guidelines
• Network monitoring

Global traffic routing

MediaWiki

Multimedia

Data Engineering

Search

Data Persistence

Infra Foundations

Observability

Performance Team

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Overview

The Wikimedia Foundation operates a network made of 2 main datacenters (Ashburn, Dallas), 4 caching sites (San Francisco, Amsterdam, Singapore, Marseille) and 3 networking sites (Dallas, Chicago, Amsterdam).

Since 2017, this network is unified under AS14907.

Those sites are connected in a redundant way to each other using dedicated fibers, wavelengths and VPLS circuits.

Connectivity to the world is achieved via various transit providers and exchange points.

Overview of Wikimedia's network and providers

USA

Wikimedia Ashburn DC, physical layer

Wikimedia Dallas DCs, physical layer

Wikimedia San Francisco DC, physical layer

Europe

Wikimedia Amsterdam DCs, physical layer

Wikimedia Amsterdam DCs, IP layer

Wikimedia Marseille DC, partial physical layer

Asia-Pacific

Wikimedia Singapore site, physical layer

See also

• Network cheat sheet
• Network guidelines
• Network design (historic) - 2015 and earlier
• Network design - Eqiad Expansion EVPN
• Network design - Eqiad WMCS Network Infra