Riot Games (AS6507)

Riot Games (AS6507) exists because Riot decided the internet's default paths were not good enough for its games. After failing to reach direct arrangements with the large American access networks, it built Riot Direct, a private backbone assembled on unused dark fibre with deliberately few hops between players and game servers. Moving the North American servers to Chicago behind it took the share of players getting a sub-80-millisecond round trip from about half to about four fifths.

For a colocation tenant the useful detail is that Riot's game compute has left the building but its network has not. Riot closed the last of its own data centres in early 2024 and now runs the games on public cloud, while continuing to operate routers, exchange ports and private interconnects in carrier hotels. It holds traffic on its own backbone as long as it can rather than handing off early, which means the interconnection closest to the player is the one that decides ping. Riot publishes routing communities tagging traffic by region and by title, so a network can tell League of Legends from VALORANT on the wire.

Riot Games (AS6507) is on-net at 71 colocation facilities in the ColoMap directory.

Top metros where Riot Games (AS6507) is reachable: Washington, DC, US, Sydney, QLD, AU, Santa Clara, CA, US, Chicago, IL, US, London, GB.

Use the directory below to find a facility on-net with Riot Games (AS6507), or request a quote tailored to your connectivity requirements.