--- title: Switzerland built an alternative to BGP. Nobody noticed description: SCION (Scalability, Control, and Isolation On Next-Generation Networks) is a routing architecture developed at ETH Zürich that replaces BGP's insecure... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/switzerland-built-an-alternative-to-bgp-nobody-noticed-9vzls8gls twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Switzerland built an alternative to BGP. Nobody noticed | daily.dev og:description: SCION (Scalability, Control, and Isolation On Next-Generation Networks) is a routing architecture developed at ETH Zürich that replaces BGP's insecure... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/switzerland-built-an-alternative-to-bgp-nobody-noticed-9vzls8gls og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/9vZlS8GlS.png og:image:alt: Switzerland built an alternative to BGP. Nobody noticed og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Switzerland built an alternative to BGP. Nobody noticed **[The Register](https://daily.dev/sources/theregister)** · 15 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary SCION (Scalability, Control, and Isolation On Next-Generation Networks) is a routing architecture developed at ETH Zürich that replaces BGP's insecure foundation rather than patching it. It offers multi-path routing with millisecond failover, cryptographic path validation, and isolation domains that prevent cascading failures. Switzerland's financial sector has been running it in production since 2021, settling 220 billion Swiss francs daily on the Secure Swiss Finance Network (SSFN), with the legacy MPLS network now being phased out. Despite proven real-world success, global adoption remains stalled due to lack of IETF standardization, the chicken-and-egg network adoption problem, a single commercial vendor (Anapaya), and the fundamental human tendency to avoid renewing infrastructure that still technically functions. Experts suggest only a major BGP-based nation-state attack would likely accelerate widespread adoption. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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