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Route Flap Damping in the Wild?!

Route Flap Damping in the Wild?!

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Clemens Mosig

9 min read

BGP Route Flap Damping (RFD) and its use has been a controversial topic in the past. Recommendations have been revised multiple times over the past two decades and still differ from vendor default values. In this article we dive into how we measured Route Flap Damping in the real-world, uncover whi…

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Connecting the Quantum Internet

Connecting the Quantum Internet

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Vesna Manojlovic

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As a part of our efforts to increase collaboration between the "classical" Internet and quantum networking research, we are republishing the summary of a research paper on "heterogeneous quantum networks".

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IPv6 Adoption Statistics: a Comparison of Different Metrics

IPv6 Adoption Statistics: a Comparison of Different Metrics

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Rene Wilhelm

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Following up on earlier research, we're looking at IPv6 adoption statistics provided by various organisations once again. How far do they match, and if not, why not?

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RIPE 80: Setting up a Zoom Alternative with AWS

RIPE 80: Setting up a Zoom Alternative with AWS

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Oliver Payne

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Not all of the RIPE 80 attendees were able to use Zoom to participate in the remote meeting for different reasons. We therefore provided an alternative way, which did not rely on Zoom, for people to join in the meeting.

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RIPE NCC Country Report: Southeast Europe

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Suzanne Taylor

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We examine the Internet landscape in eight different countries in Southeast Europe as the next in our series of RIPE NCC Country Reports.

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Visualisations of Periodic IoT Traffic

Visualisations of Periodic IoT Traffic

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Thymen Wabeke

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This is a case study to measure periodic network traffic from smart light bulbs.

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Evaluating the Performance of NRENs in Deploying IoT in Africa: the Case for TTN

Evaluating the Performance of NRENs in Deploying IoT in Africa: the Case for TTN

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We analysed the readiness of African National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) to be part of “The Things Network” (TTN). We used RIPE Atlas to measure delay and packet loss from NREN networks to TTN.

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Modelling BBR’s Interactions with Loss-based Congestion Control

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Ranysha Ware

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BBR has rapidly become a major player in Internet congestion control. BBR’s fairness or friendliness to other connections has recently come under scrutiny as measurements from multiple research groups have shown undesirable outcomes when BBR competes with traditional congestion control algorithms (…

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Down the Black Hole: Dismantling Operational Practices of BGP Blackholing at IXPs

Down the Black Hole: Dismantling Operational Practices of BGP Blackholing at IXPs

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Marcin Nawrocki

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Large Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks pose a major threat not only to end systems but also to the Internet infrastructure as a whole. Remote Triggered Black Hole filtering (RTBH) has been established as a tool to mitigate inter-domain DDoS attacks. The idea is simple: Signal special BG…

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Our Approach to the Cloud

Our Approach to the Cloud

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Kaveh Ranjbar

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We have plans to move some of our technical infrastructure to the cloud in order to achieve greater agility in our technical setup. Here's an overview of our approach.

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