Measurements and Statistics

Peering Market at a Glance: Trends, Transformations, and the Regional Dynamics of Internet Interconnection

Flavio Luciani

• 10 Feb 2026

• 3 min read

Recent claims that IXPs "aren’t showing significant growth", that more interconnection is happening outside exchanges, and that peering can be more expensive than transit challenge long-standing assumptions about the role of IXPs. But do these claims hold up? A new paper from NAMEX explores the dat…

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Internet Coordination in Times of War

Hisham Ibrahim

• 4 Feb 2026

• 4 min read

Periods of armed conflict often lead to renewed scrutiny of how the Internet functions and of the organisations involved in its coordination. In such moments, simplified or incorrect narratives that can frame technical coordination roles as political choices, or assign responsibilities to coordinat…

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DNSSEC and PQC: Practical Impact of Increased TCP in DNS

Eline Stehouwer

• 29 Jan 2026

• 17 min read

Post-quantum cryptography could make DNSSEC responses bigger, pushing more DNS traffic from UDP to TCP. In this guest post, Eline Stehouwer (SIDN Labs) explores what that means for authoritative name servers, replaying real .nl traffic across NSD, Knot, BIND and PowerDNS.

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Raffaele Sommese - The Technical Impact of Rapid-Response Blocking: Italy’s Piracy Shield

Alun Davies

• 26 Jan 2026

• 2 min read

In our latest episode, Raffaele Sommese of the University of Twente shares insights from him and his colleagues on Italy’s Piracy Shield and how rapid-response blocking works in practice. We get into the technical impact, how it can be measured, and the consequences for connectivity.

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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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A First Look at the Adoption of BGP-based DDoS Scrubbing Services

Shyam Krishna Khadka

• 5 Nov 2025

• 8 min read

We present a first look at the adoption of BGP-based DDoS scrubbing, developing a methodology that sheds light on use of the global top five scrubbers. By identifying protected ASes and prefixes via four BGP AS-path patterns in RIS/RouteViews, we provide an initial overview of adoption across the I…

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Unlocking Digital Growth: The Role of IXPs in South East Europe

Jelena Cosic

• 21 Oct 2025

• 4 min read

How do we know when an IXP is working well? What goals should it achieve, and can success be measured in the same way everywhere? A new RIPE NCC report takes a closer look at these questions in the context of the SEE region.

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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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CAPIF 4: Grounded in IPv6, Looking to Orbit

Anastasiya Pak

• 10 Oct 2025

• 5 min read

With record-breaking participation in Almaty, CAPIF 4 rallied network operators, IXPs, policymakers, and researchers to map Central Asia’s next steps. The message was clear: accelerate IPv6, deepen interconnection and measurement for resilience, and diversify paths to keep traffic closer to home.

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Autocast: Automatic Anycast Site Optimisation

Thijs van den Hout

• 30 Sep 2025

• 16 min read

Autocast turns one round of unicast latency measurements into millisecond-accurate predictions, automatically selecting the optimal anycast locations for fast .nl response times worldwide. Pairing simulated annealing with real resolver telemetry, it delivers lean, cost-aware PoP sets - often around…

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