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Low-Latency Hardware-Assisted Virtual Networking

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Florian Wiedner

6 min read

Virtualisation can help optimise resource sharing, providing improved support for low-latency applications when compared to bare-metal systems. But achieving ultra-low latency on cost-effective hardware requires strategic planning.

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Unlocking UX: A User-Centred Journey for RIPEstat

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Antonella De Bellis

5 min read

User experience design is not about trends, it's about solving real problems. The team behind the RIPEstat talk in depth about the design journey they undertook to create the latest iteration of the UI.

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PeeringDB to Require MFA and API Keys

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Leo Vegoda

2 min read

You must have a second factor to login to PeeringDB from 1 July 2025. If you automate updates using our API, you'll need to use an API Key. But anonymous usage will not be going away. You can query the website or API without authenticating. This change will impact users who make updates or need acc…

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Navigating Network Measurements - Routers, Switches, Servers

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Tobias Fiebig

5 min read

If you want to run network measurements, you need to run them off of something. For a whole measurement.network, that means building a whole network. In this article, we will go into the infrastructure behind measurement.network, how it was built, and what it can do.

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How Cloud Edge Infrastructure Improves Round-Trip Time

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Katerina Lionta

10 min read

In this work, we investigate the improvements in network latency across six European countries - Germany, Finland, Poland, Bulgaria, Greece, and Czechia - when leveraging cloud edge infrastructure. Using ping measurements from RIPE Atlas, we analyse the impact of cloud edge solutions provided by th…

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Routing IPv6 Through Wireguard With MikroTik and Debian

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Wido den Hollander

5 min read

With a recently allocated /29 subnet, a new RIPE NCC member set himself the challenge of routing parts of this IPv6 space to his home. The result? An IPv6-only setup with pure plain routing!

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RIPE Atlas UI: Revamped Probe Detail Pages

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Stephen Suess

4 min read

Over the past few months, the RIPE Atlas team and our stakeholders have been hard at work reimagining the probe detail pages to make them cleaner, more user-friendly, and enriched with new features.

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Easy RIPE Atlas Data Analysis with SQL

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Giovane Moura

27 min read

Not a big fan of pandas dataframe syntax? Prefer to use SQL? Then suffer no more! In this detailed, step-by-step guide using RIPE Atlas public data, find out how DuckDB allows you to use SQL without any DB server on a Jupyter Notebook.

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Building a Secure Test Environment for an IXP

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Marta Burocchi

10 min read

IXPs operate on principles of trust and cooperation upheld through adherence to clear rules. Quarantine VLAN is a way to help test whether new peers are compliant with those rules. Namex Digital Twin now enables Namex members to carry out these tests for themselves.

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RIPE Atlas Anchors - Operating System Refresh

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Sean Mottles

7 min read

RIPE Atlas anchors give us a reliable set of vantage points from which to observe the Internet, but keeping them operational over time raises interesting challenges. Here, we give an update on a recent upgrade we carried out for anchors and lessons learned along the way.

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