A method and apparatus for a routing scheme based on virtual space representation is described and illustrated. In one embodiment, the invention is a method of operating a network. The method includes translating a topology of the network into a digital representation in the form of multi-dimensional spatial configuration wherein a directed distance to any destination node or site indicates the available path options with the least or low number of hops through the network. The method also includes adding transmission cost data to the digital representation. The method further includes operating the network based on the digital representation.