Measurements and Statistics

Looking Inside Outages with RIPE Atlas

Alun Davies

• 8 Sep 2020

• 7 min read

RIPE Atlas probes actively measure Internet connectivity through a variety of measurement types. In this article, we take a closer look at what probes can tell us about outages.

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Using RIPE Atlas to Predict Users' Quality of Experience

Alan Jones

• 26 Aug 2020

• 5 min read

Poor internet performance is often blamed on the network speed delivered by an ISP. While local data transmission speeds can contribute to a bad user experience, there are many other potential culprits. Problems such as the number of devices consuming available bandwidth, the round-trip distance a …

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Our First Glance at the Belarus Outages

Alun Davies

• 12 Aug 2020

• 6 min read

On 9 August, Belarus experienced country-wide Internet outages. Here's a first glance at what our tools and datasets have to tell us about the scale of these outages and their impact.

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The Internet Health Report

Romain Fontugne

• 27 Jul 2020

• 7 min read

The Internet Health Report (IHR) is an open source project, partly funded by RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund, that monitors AS connectivity. This article is a quick introduction to IHR and shares some good examples of IHR monitoring capabilities. Interested? Take a look at our website (https://ihr…

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Krill Gains Powerful ROA Management Based on BGP Routing

Alex Band

• 21 Jul 2020

• 5 min read

Over the last two years NLnet Labs has been working on free, open source RPKI software and research for the community, supported by the RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund. We are incredibly excited that six months after the first release of Krill it already powers delegated RPKI for over 150 organisa…

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Route Flap Damping in the Wild?!

Clemens Mosig

• 24 Jun 2020

• 9 min read

BGP Route Flap Damping (RFD) and its use has been a controversial topic in the past. Recommendations have been revised multiple times over the past two decades and still differ from vendor default values. In this article we dive into how we measured Route Flap Damping in the real-world, uncover whi…

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Measuring IP Connectivity with RIPE Atlas

Branimir Petricevic

• 24 Jun 2020

• 7 min read

One of the most important but often overlooked criteria when choosing a hosting provider is the performance of its network. Poor network performance for any kind of online service leads to low customer satisfaction. What is the best way to measure network performance that most accurately simulates …

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IPv6 Adoption Statistics: a Comparison of Different Metrics

Rene Wilhelm

• 8 Jun 2020

• 13 min read

Following up on earlier research, we're looking at IPv6 adoption statistics provided by various organisations once again. How far do they match, and if not, why not?

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Report from the First Virtual RIPE NCC Hackathon

Vesna Manojlovic

• 4 Jun 2020

• 8 min read

While working from home during the global health crisis, we organised a virtual hackathon. The event lasted several weeks and aimed to measure and visualise the health of the Internet.

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The BGP Tuner: Intuitive Anycast Management

Joao M. Ceron

• 15 May 2020

• 5 min read

DNS operators have very few intelligent real-time tools that enable them to monitor their anycast services, for instance during a DDoS attack. In this post, we describe the challenges associated with measuring anycast services and propose a tool called the BGP Tuner. By using our open-source tool, …

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