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Stephen Suess

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Based in Amsterdam

UX/UI/Frontend Developer with the RIPE NCC since February 2019.

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Introducing Region Meshes: Visualising Intra-Region Routing Paths

Stephen Suess

• 15 Apr 2026

• 7 min read

Region Meshes is a new RIPE Atlas tool that visualises intra-region routing paths, showing where traffic stays local, where it leaves, and how IXPs are being used.

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Introducing Path Analysis: A New Way to Visualise Traceroute Changes in RIPE Atlas

Stephen Suess

• 17 Dec 2025

• 4 min read

RIPE Atlas now includes a new path analysis tool that makes it easier to understand how traceroute paths evolve over time. By comparing runs side by side, it highlights where the path changed and what kind of change it was. This gives you a fast, visual starting point for incident investigation, va…

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Six Ways To Use Khipu To See And Solve Network Problems

Stephen Suess

• 15 Oct 2025

• 8 min read

Since we launched Khipu, we’ve been working to pin down the most useful, real-world workflows. This article walks through six core use cases - from outage detection, through routing policy validation, to exploring IXPs along network paths.

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Khipu: Prototype RIPE Atlas Traceroute Visualisation Tool

Stephen Suess

• 5 Aug 2025

• 5 min read

The RIPE Atlas team is developing a new tool for traceroute visualisations that should make analysing large traceroute measurements much clearer and easier.

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DNSMON Gets a Makeover

Stephen Suess

• 21 Jul 2025

• 4 min read

DNSMON (and DomainMON) gets a modern rewrite with a new home, responsive design, better performance, and unified technology with RIPE Atlas.

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RIPE Atlas UI: Revamped Probe Detail Pages

Stephen Suess

• 3 Mar 2025

• 4 min read

Over the past few months, the RIPE Atlas team and our stakeholders have been hard at work reimagining the probe detail pages to make them cleaner, more user-friendly, and enriched with new features.

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A Tour of the New RIPEstat UI

Stephen Suess

• 19 May 2021

• 8 min read

The new RIPEstat UI brings big changes to the look and feel of RIPEstat. It presents an updated, clean, responsive design built on a modern framework and comes equipped with a whole host of new features. In this article, we explore all these features and improvements.

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The New RIPEstat In Other Words

Stephen Suess

• 15 Oct 2019

• 4 min read

In May, with the aim of improving the experience for all RIPEstat users, we started a complete redesign of the RIPEstat user interface. With the prototype UI having received a lot of positive feedback, we’re still busy adding new features, one of which will allow users to switch between languages w…

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RIPEstat is Getting Ready for a Face-Lift

Stephen Suess

• 13 May 2019

• 4 min read

The user interface (UI) of RIPEstat has become a familiar view for our user base, but after nine years of service we are starting to explore new concepts to improve the user experience on our information service. In this article we share our motivation, the guiding principles for the new UI and the…

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Rolling Out the RIPE Atlas Redesign

Michela Galante

• 12 Nov 2020

• 6 min read

You may have noticed that, as of this past week, RIPE Atlas is looking different. To explain what's changed and why, here's a quick update on our latest efforts in rolling out the new design we've been working on for our services.

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