ProbeNet Q4 2025 Expansion: Deepening Global Coverage and Redundancy

In Q4 2025, ProbeNet, IPinfo’s internet measurement platform, continued scaling its global points of presence (PoPs) network with a focus on deeper coverage, stronger redundancy in high-demand markets, and broader infrastructure diversification. We deployed 151 new monitoring PoPs across 66 countries and 121 cities, expanding measurement density where it matters most and extending visibility into underserved regions.

This expansion strengthens ProbeNet’s ability to validate internet behavior through active measurement, providing more local points of presence, shorter measurement paths, and improved resilience through multi-probe coverage in an increasing number of cities.

Total Q4 Deployments	151 new PoPs
New Countries	5 new countries added
New Cities	57 cities added to coverage
IPv6 Enablement (new PoPs)	55.6% (84 PoPs)
Infrastructure diversification	63 providers in Q4 deployments, including 40 new providers added to the ecosystem
End-of-quarter footprint (Dec 31, 2025)	1,298 active PoPs across 147 countries

Geographic Expansion: Balancing Depth in Core Markets With Reach Into Frontier Regions

Q4 deployments followed a balanced approach: reinforcing ProbeNet’s presence in key markets while extending the network into regions where reliable measurement points of presence are harder to obtain.

Continental distribution (Q4 deployments)

• Europe: 67 PoPs (44.4%)
• Asia: 33 PoPs (21.9%)
• North America: 27 PoPs (17.9%)
• Africa: 11 PoPs (7.3%)
• South America: 11 PoPs (7.3%)
• Oceania: 2 PoPs (1.3%)

Europe led Q4 in absolute deployments, driven by continued expansion into secondary cities and additional redundancy in major hubs. Asia and North America followed, maintaining ProbeNet’s coverage density across the world’s largest internet markets while Africa and South America saw meaningful step-ups in coverage relative to their existing footprint.

Continental Growth Impact 

Comparing the points of presence footprint as of September 30, 2025 to December 31, 2025, Africa again saw the highest percentage growth among continents, reflecting a sustained commitment to building measurement presence in frontier markets:

• Africa: +21.2%
• Europe: +16.8%
• South America: +15.9%
• Asia: +10.7%
• North America: +9.3%
• Oceania: +6.5%

Top Countries by Q4 Deployment

Q4 expansion concentrated deployments where additional points of presence have outsized value: large internet markets, high-traffic regions, and countries where more city-level granularity improves active-measurement precision.

Top countries by Q4 deployments:

1. 🇺🇸United States: 21 
2. 🇬🇧United Kingdom: 8
3. 🇫🇷France: 7
4. 🇩🇪Germany: 6
5. 🇳🇴Norway: 5 🇨🇳China: 5 
6. 🇮🇹Italy: 4 🇹🇷Turkey: 4 🇷🇺Russia: 4 🇧🇷Brazil: 4

This quarter’s distribution reflects two parallel priorities:

• Reinforcing high-demand geographies (e.g., U.S., U.K., France, Germany) with additional city coverage and redundancy.
• Expanding measurement breadth across diverse routing environments (e.g., Turkey, Brazil, China), supporting more representative RTT behavior across different networks and regional infrastructures.

New Countries Added in Q4

Q4 added ProbeNet coverage in five new countries, expanding our footprint into additional regions and network environments:

• 🇬🇲Gambia (GM)
• 🇬🇬Guernsey (GG)
• 🇲🇬Madagascar (MG)
• 🇲🇶Martinique (MQ)
• 🇷🇪Reunion (RE)

These additions strengthen ProbeNet’s global diversity, introducing new PoPs across West Africa and island geographies where measurement infrastructure is often limited but strategically important for global topology visibility.

New City Coverage: 57 Net-New Points of Presence

Across Q4, ProbeNet deployments introduced 57 cities that were new to the network, increasing local granularity and improving regional representativeness.

A few examples of notable net-new PoPs added in Q4 include:

• Europe: Bologna, Leipzig, Murmansk, Constanţa
• North America: Billings, Little Rock, Grand Rapids, Missoula
• Latin America: Bogotá, Brasília
• Africa: Antananarivo, Lomé, Durban
• Asia: Incheon, Harbin, Huaihua
• Channel Islands / overseas regions: St. Helier-area coverage (Guernsey), Le Lamentin (Martinique), Saint-Denis (Reunion)

Strategic Infrastructure Development

Redundancy and Capacity Building

ProbeNet’s ability to validate internet conditions improves not only with new geographies, but also with multiple PoPs per city, which increases reliability and expands the diversity of network paths we can observe.

By the end of Q4:

• 213 cities host multiple ProbeNet PoPs, up from 196 at the end of Q3
• That’s +17 additional cities gaining redundant PoP coverage over the quarter

This multi-probe strategy supports:

• Higher reliability (reduced single-point dependencies)
• Greater path diversity (multiple providers / points of presence per metro area)
• Better monitoring capacity in critical hubs

IPv6 Readiness

Q4 continued ProbeNet’s commitment to modern protocol coverage:

• 55.6% of Q4 points of presence (84 of 151) are IPv6-enabled

This investment helps ensure ProbeNet remains effective as IPv6 adoption grows globally, particularly in regions and networks where IPv6 behavior differs meaningfully from IPv4 (routing, latency, and peering patterns can diverge).

Diversified Provider Ecosystem

Q4 expansion also broadened ProbeNet’s infrastructure partnerships:

• 63 providers were used in Q4 deployments
• 40 of those providers were new additions (first appearing in Q4)

This diversification reduces dependency on any single infrastructure source and improves the representation of our active-measurement points of presence across different hosting models, from large cloud environments to regional infrastructure providers.

Why This Matters: Better Vantage Points Make Better Verification

ProbeNet’s core mission is to deliver empirical, active measurement that complements passive sources (registries, BGP, hosted signals, etc.) with observed internet conditions. Every new PoP increases the number of places we can measure from and every new city added helps us better represent how the internet behaves locally.

Q4’s expansion advances that mission in three practical ways:

1. More local points of presence: improved geographic granularity for measurement
2. More redundancy: higher resilience and richer path diversity in key metros
3. More provider diversity: broader coverage across real-world network architectures

Together, these improvements strengthen ProbeNet’s role as a verification backbone for IP intelligence supporting more robust measurement-derived insights across network mapping, behavior validation, and geolocation verification workflows.

Looking Forward

Q4 2025 expanded ProbeNet’s footprint meaningfully, adding 151 new PoPs, introducing 57 net-new cities, expanding into five new countries, and strengthening IPv6 and redundancy across the network.

As we move into 2026, we’ll continue to:

• Close remaining coverage gaps identified through measurement analysis
• Increase redundant city coverage in high-value hubs
• Expand partnerships to improve provider and path diversity, especially in underserved regions
• Keep investing in IPv6-capable measurement infrastructure as global adoption accelerates