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Streamlining RIPEstat: Building an Interface for the Future

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For several years, RIPEstat has been supporting two user interfaces - the original 2013 version and a redesigned version introduced in 2020. While each has its strengths, maintaining two separate interfaces has introduced inefficiencies for both our users and our development team. After thorough an…

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The Next Generation of BGP Data Collection Platforms

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Thomas Holterbach

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Existing BGP data collection platforms face challenges that threaten their long-term sustainability: their data comes with enormous redundancy and significant visibility gaps. We explore a new BGP data collection paradigm, already implemented in a prototype called GILL, that could stir change for o…

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IXP-from-Scratch: The Peering LAN

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Thomas Liske

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In the third of our “IXP from Scratch” series, we discuss our setup of the peering switches and route servers at DD-IX, an Internet Exchange located in Dresden, Germany. We explain how we connect our two PoPs and which security and safety mechanisms (L2 and L3) we configured to ensure reliable oper…

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Olympeaks: The Impact of the Paris 2024 Olympics on Italy's Internet Traffic

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Flavio Luciani

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The Olympeaks observatory, a monitoring initiative from NAMEX, captured the Internet traffic profile for Italian coverage of the Olympics. Here's their view of some of the main peaks.

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A Dive Into TLD Performance

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Arnold Dechamps

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DNS is a complex set of protocols with a long history. Some TLD's go as far back as 1985 - but not all of them are built equal. And not all of them have the same performance depending on where the end user is situated in the world. So just how different are they?

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How We Distribute RIPE Atlas Probes

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Ulka Athale

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With a limited supply of hardware probes and thousands of networks yet to be covered, how do we prioritise the applications to host probes? In this article, we explain our hardware probe distribution strategy to improve RIPE Atlas’s global coverage.

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IXP-from-Scratch: Network and Security Design

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Thomas Liske

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In the second of our “IXP from Scratch” series, we introduce network and security design decisions as well as implementations we made at DD-IX, an Internet Exchange in Dresden, Germany. In principle, an IX consists of a single broadcast domain, but in practice it has to operate several services sec…

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IXP-from-Scratch: Building a New IX

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Thomas Liske

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In this new series "IXP from Scratch", we report about our endeavor of building DD-IX, an Internet Exchange located in the city of Dresden, Germany. DD-IX is driven by a grassroots community that loves contributing to a resilient and efficient Internet. We start with some basic background and will …

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A Multifaceted Look at Starlink Performance - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

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Nitinder Mohan

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How does Starlink stack up against terrestrial ISPs as a global service? And exactly what factors impact its operations? A new multifaceted active and passive measurement study uncovers the good, the bad and the ugly when it comes to Starlink performance.

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Paola Grosso: Defining a Responsible Internet

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Alun Davies

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For many, the Internet is essentially a black box. We connect with other endpoints to send and receive data, but we have little insight into what happens in between. Dr Paola Grosso talks about how CATRIN seeks to provide more visibility and control so we can make more responsible decisions on how …

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