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### Instruction:
What is the purpose of BGP communities?
### Response:
BGP communities provide a way of grouping destinations into communities and applying routing decisions based on the community. Each community is represented by a 32-bit value, with the format AS:NN. Well-known communities include no-export, no-advertise, internet, and local-as.
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