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Using RIPE Atlas to Measure Latency to Reunion Island

Using RIPE Atlas to Measure Latency to Reunion Island

Réhan NOORDALLY

8 min read

Internet connectivity is not fairly distributed around the world, in particular for islands or isolated areas. For instance, connectivity to and from the Reunion Island is mainly based on links to France located about 10,000 km away. This causes long delays and degraded Internet service. In this ar…

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Focus on Russia - RIPE NCC Statistics and Data

Focus on Russia - RIPE NCC Statistics and Data

Fergal Cunningham

9 min read

Russia, aside from being by far the geographically biggest country in our service region, is one of only three countries with more than a thousand LIRs. We look at the stats from Russia and compare it to the other two countries with over 1,000 LIRs.

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Focus on Ireland - RIPE NCC Statistics and Data

Focus on Ireland - RIPE NCC Statistics and Data

Fergal Cunningham

9 min read

In this second article focusing on what our stats and data show us about a country in our service region, we look at Ireland and how it compares with countries of similar population in northern Europe.

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Focus on Uzbekistan - RIPE NCC Statistics and Data

Focus on Uzbekistan - RIPE NCC Statistics and Data

Fergal Cunningham

7 min read

We take a look at the current Internet status in Uzbekistan using RIPE NCC data and statistics. This is the start of a series featuring various countries in our service region.

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Commercial Incentives of IPv6 Deployment

Commercial Incentives of IPv6 Deployment

Mirjam Kühne

13 min read

This article is based on the IPv6 Best Practices document published for the Internet Governance Forum 2016 by Izumi Okutani, Sumon A. Sabir and Wim Degezelle.

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A Slice of 5G

A Slice of 5G

Marco Hogewoning

3 min read

The concept of a 5th generation of mobile networking is gaining traction – not only among policy makers but also in technical standardisation work.

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Internet Access Disruption In The Gambia - 2016

Internet Access Disruption In The Gambia - 2016

Emile Aben

4 min read

We had a look at various RIPE NCC data sets to see what we can learn from yet another country-wide Internet outage in 2016.

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Cybersecurity Due Diligence - an ISP Perspective

Cybersecurity Due Diligence - an ISP Perspective

Joanna Kulesza

8 min read

Cybersecurity is no longer a corporate or private affair. What once was simply good business practice is now a legal obligation for ISPs, large and small. What does this mean for you?

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Routing Detours: Can We Avoid Nation-State Surveillance?

Routing Detours: Can We Avoid Nation-State Surveillance?

Annie Edmundson

6 min read

An increasing number of countries are passing laws that facilitate the mass surveillance of their citizens. In response, governments and citizens are increasingly paying attention to the countries that their Internet traffic traverses. In some cases, countries are taking extreme steps, such as bui…

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