• 4 min read
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…
Thomas Holterbach is a Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Strasbourg. He currently researches how to better measure Internet routing, with a particular focus on detecting BGP hijacks and anomalies. Thomas earned his Master’s degree from the University of Strasbourg in 2014 and completed his Ph.D. at ETH Zurich in … More
• 12 min read
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…
Based in Dresden, Germany
Thomas operates data center and isp infrastructure as a profession at AS15372. He is co-founder of DD-IX and an open-source enthusiast. More
• 13 min read
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…
Flavio Luciani was born in Rome in 1981 and graduated in Computer Engineering from the University of Roma Tre in 2005. Since 2008 he has been in the team of Namex, the Internet eXchange Point in Rome, first as a member of the technical staff and since 2020 as Chief … More
• 4 min read
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.
Based in Brussels
Network Engineer of possible. I do things with stuff. Generally curious about tech and things that tend to turn into very deep rabit holes, I like to understand how things work and I try to break them. That way I can understand problems and correct them before someone exploits them. … More
• 8 min read
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?
Based in Amsterdam
Senior Marketing and Communications Officer at the RIPE NCC. I started working at the RIPE NCC in 2018, having previously worked in digital marketing, communications, magazine publishing and teaching. More
• 7 min read
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.
Based in Dresden, Germany
Thomas operates data center and isp infrastructure as a profession at AS15372. He is co-founder of DD-IX and an open-source enthusiast. More
• 11 min read
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…
Based in Dresden, Germany
Thomas operates data center and isp infrastructure as a profession at AS15372. He is co-founder of DD-IX and an open-source enthusiast. More
• 5 min read
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 …
Based in Delft, Netherlands
Nitinder Mohan is an Assistant Professor at the CS department in Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), Netherlands. Prior to this, he was a senior researcher at Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany. His research interests include edge computing, next-generation networked applications and large-scale Internet measurements. He received his Ph.D. … More
• 9 min read
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.
Based in Amsterdam
Hailing from a research background in philosophy, linguistics and computer science, I came to the RIPE NCC back in 2016 and took on the role of RIPE Labs Editor in 2020. More
• 2 min read
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 …
