The Internet infrastructure is severely stressed. Rapidly growing overhead
associated with the primary function of the Internet---routing information
packets between any two computers in the world---causes concerns among Internet
experts that the existing Internet routing architecture may not sustain even
another decade; parts of the Internet have started sinking into black holes
already. Here we present a method to map the Internet to a hyperbolic space.
Guided with the constructed map, which we release with this paper, Internet
routing exhibits scaling properties close to theoretically best possible, thus
resolving serious scaling limitations that the Internet faces today. Besides
this immediate practical viability, our network mapping method can provide a
different perspective on the community structure in complex networks.