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Part of the foundation of Lumeta has been a long-term research project to collect routing data on the Internet. The project consists of frequent path probes, one to each registered Internet entity. From this, trees are built showing the paths to most of the networks on the Internet.

These paths change over time, as routes reconfigure and as the Internet grows. Lumeta has been preserving this data and intends to continue running the scans well into the future. A database of the scans should be able to show how the Internet grows, and it should be possible to make a movie of the growth depicted by these scans.