An observatory for path transparency measurement
Guest Post: The MAMI Project’s new Path Transparency Observatory will help operators with locating and analysing network impairments on the Internet.
Tag: measurement
Measuring your web server reachability with TCP Ping
Guest Post: Which is better measuring the connectivity and latency of web servers on the network level, HTTP or TCP Ping?
Metrics @ IX Australia
Guest Post: Check out how IX Australia have re-architected and designed a new platform to provide higher-definition network insights.
Is YouTube faster over IPv6?
A three-year study sought to measure the difference between YouTube content delivery over IPv6 and IPv4 to understand which provides the best user experience.
Detecting network outages with RIPE Atlas
Guest Post: A technique to detect bursty TCP disconnections, and how it can be used on RIPE Atlas data to better detect outages in the Internet.
Characterizing IPv6 traffic load balancing
Guest Post: Traffic load balancing is a common solution to bandwidth demands. Using a modified traceroute tool, researchers in Brazil are examining load balancing in IPv6 networks.
Viet Nam, Myanmar join the Asia Pacific RIPE Atlas anchor network
Viet Nam and Myanmar are the latest additions to the growing network of economies hosting APNIC-sponsored RIPE Atlas anchors in the Asia Pacific.
‘Why is the Internet so slow?!’
Guest Post: What’s the source of latency on the Internet, and how can it be reduced?
Open resolvers on IPv6: not as hidden as you think
Guest Post: New research shows that network operators cannot simply rely on the size of the IPv6 address space to hide open DNS resolvers.
Anycast latency: How many sites are enough?
Guest Post: New research studies the relationship between latency and anycast deployment of four Root DNS servers (C, F, K and L) to determine how many anycast sites are required for good latency.