• 7 min read
RIPE IPmap, the RIPE NCC’s tool for geolocating core Internet infrastructure, has undergone a full architectural overhaul. With a new set of APIs and interfaces designed to cater to the needs of all users, the system integrates various methods for estimating the geographical locations of IXPs, core…
Vesna Manojlovic is Community Builder at RIPE NCC. Vesna joined the RIPE NCC as a Trainer in 1999. In 2003, she took responsibility for developing and delivering advanced courses, such as RPSL, Routing Registry, DNSSEC and IPv6. In 2008, she lead efforts to establish IPv6 RIPEness as a measure of … More
• 6 min read
FOSDEM is an opportunity for developers of free and open-source software from around the world to meet in “real life”, every February, for one weekend in Brussels. Among all the conversations and experiences are many topics relevant for the RIPE community.
Rene Wilhelm is a senior research engineer in the R&D department at the RIPE NCC. Coming from a background in particle physics, Rene joined the RIPE NCC in 1996. His interests are in data analysis, routing, Internet measurements and visualisation. More
• 6 min read
A record number of IPv4 addresses were transferred between LIRs in the RIPE NCC service region in 2017. However, 16 of the largest transfers, amounting to 78% of the total transferred address space, were really about the administrative management of resources between related business units. In term…
Based in Moscow
Head of Qrator.Radar project More
• 6 min read
We built a tool to visualise network latency measured with RIPE Atlas.
Richard Cziva is a PhD candidate from the Networked System Research Lab of the University of Glasgow. His research focuses on the development and orchestration of lightweight, container-based NFV frameworks. He has also worked with wide-area network providers such as NORDUnet, REANNZ and ESnet on projects around software-defined networking and … More
• 5 min read
With the increasing number of real-time applications (online games using virtual reality, multi-site financial transaction processing) and the radically new business models and use cases introduced by the 5G mobile architecture (robotics, tactile Internet) requiring interactive back-and-forth commu…
Based in London
Ben is a Systems Engineer from London, who started off with a background in web security and has found a fascination in internet infrastructure and protocols. In his spare time he tinkers with old and new protocols to bring them to life. More
• 6 min read
Traceroutes are a common network debugging diagnostic tool. They (should) list every router that your packet travels through to get to its final destination. Here is what it looks like from my flat to my website:
Based in Santiago, CL
I'm a computer engineer at NIC Chile, the .CL ccTLD registry. I'm part of the Operations group since late 90s and now more involved in research and external projects. I'm interested in technologies like DNSSEC, Internet measurement, standarization (IETF), IPv6, whois and everything name/DNS related. More
• 2 min read
On 29 December 2017, one of the largest Internet access providers in the south of Chile suffered a massive Internet outage. We used RIPEstat to measure the effect.
For many years I have been the leader of the Research and Development team at the RIPE NCC leading a dedicated team of thinkers to support the RIPE community by providing network research, data analysis and prototype tool development and services including RIPE Atlas and RIPEstat. As of 2023, I'm … More
• 4 min read
Members of the RIPE Atlas community have asked us to implement RIPE Atlas vantage points as Virtual Machines (VMs). In order to address these requests, we came up with a plan of action.
For many years I have been the leader of the Research and Development team at the RIPE NCC leading a dedicated team of thinkers to support the RIPE community by providing network research, data analysis and prototype tool development and services including RIPE Atlas and RIPEstat. As of 2023, I'm … More
• 7 min read
In this article we will give some insights into the overall architecture of the RIPE Atlas network and how we manage secure communication with our probe flock.
Based in Los Angeles, USA
https://eng.verizondigitalmedia.com/about/ More information about the Research team at VDMS can be found at: https://eng.verizondigitalmedia.com/research/ More
• 11 min read
In this article Marcel Flores and Stephen McQuistin describe how they used RIPE Atlas to understand the network behaviours their end-users are experiencing.
