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Anycast

Summary

Anycast ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (251 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • Anycast's subclass of is recorded as routing[2].
  • Anycast's subclass of is recorded as packet forwarding[3].
  • Anycast's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/022d98[4].
  • Anycast's Quora topic ID is recorded as Anycast[5].
  • Anycast's schematic is recorded as Anycast-BM.svg[6].
  • Anycast's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 122005561[7].
  • Anycast's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C122005561[8].

Why It Matters

Anycast ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (251 views/month).[1] Anycast has Wikipedia articles in 20 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[9] Anycast is known by 6 alternative names across languages and contexts.[10]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . Quora. wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [9] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [10] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). Anycast. Retrieved April 10, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/anycast
MLA “Anycast.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 10 Apr. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/anycast.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_anycast_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{Anycast}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/anycast}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-10}}
LLM prompt According to 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph (aggregator of Wikidata, Wikipedia, and authoritative open-data sources): Anycast — https://4ort.xyz/entity/anycast (retrieved 2026-04-10)

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