Measurements and Statistics

Sanremo and Internet Traffic in Italy

Flavio Luciani

• 12 Feb 2024

• 4 min read

The Sanremo Festival is the most important and prestigious music event in Italy, organised and broadcast live across the country by RAI, Italy's main public broadcaster. Flavio Luciani from Namex examines the week of the event from the perspective of an Internet eXchange Point.

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A BGP Side Effect of RPKI

Massimiliano Stucchi

• 6 Feb 2024

• 10 min read

The BGP communities attribute, which usefully enables network operators to signal specific requests or information to nearby ASNs, also lets them signal RPKI status. But should they? Max Stucchi investigates the propagation of RPKI information in BGP communities.

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Unlocking Digital Growth: The Role of IXPs in the Middle East

Jad El Cham

• 1 Feb 2024

• 4 min read

What does it take for an IXP to be successful? What requirements are these crucial bits of Internet infrastructure meant to fulfil? Do any of these questions have one-size-fits-all answers? A new report from the RIPE NCC explores all of the above and more in the context of Middle East IXPs.

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Jim Cowie: The Historical Record of the Internet

Alun Davies

• 21 Dec 2023

• 2 min read

Understanding outages and shutdowns and how the Internet as a whole came to be vulnerable to - but also resilient against - these kinds of events requires more than a snapshot of things as they are today. In this episode, Jim Cowie talks about how historical measurement data can help us acquire a b…

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Using Timestamps Inside RPKI Objects to Optimise RRDP-RSYNC Transport Switchovers

Job Snijders

• 5 Dec 2023

• 13 min read

Tricks to help reduce bandwidth and CPU cycles for both RPKI Publication Point servers and RPKI validators when switching between RRDP and RSYNC transports, as implemented in rpki-client.

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Does the Internet Route Around Damage? - Edition 2023

Emile Aben

• 28 Nov 2023

• 5 min read

On 22-23 November 2023, the Amsterdam Internet Exchange (AMS-IX) had an outage on their Amsterdam peering platform. As this is generally considered one of the largest IXPs on the planet, we looked into this event from the perspective of RIPE Atlas to see what it had to tell us about the robustness …

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Two Years of Selective Peering with RIS

Emile Aben

• 23 Nov 2023

• 8 min read

The peering strategy for RIS has traditionally been an open one, geared towards maximising the number of peers. But over the past couple of years we've been working with a more selective approach that reduces redundancy and cost, while also helping make sure RIS provides a diverse view of global ro…

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The Role of Aggregators in RIPE Atlas

Robert Kisteleki

• 22 Nov 2023

• 3 min read

To enable organisations to provide value to the wider community by incorporating RIPE Atlas to their offerings, we’d like to introduce the concept of RIPE Atlas “aggregators”. In this article, we explain why and call on the community for feedback.

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RIPE NCC Measurement Data Retention Principles

Robert Kisteleki

• 22 Nov 2023

• 6 min read

RIPE Atlas and RIPE RIS both provide a wealth of Internet measurement data invaluable to both Internet researchers and network operators alike. But that's not to say that questions about the cost and value of storing this data don't come up from time to time. Here, we open up the discussion on whet…