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The RIPE Labs Article Competition - RIPE 89

Competition closed

The RIPE Labs article competition for RIPE 89 closed on 20 September. Read on to find out who won!

The winner of the RIPE Labs article competition for RIPE 89 was Thomas Liske's excellent IXP-from-Scratch: Building a New IX.

The second prize went to Nitinder Mohan for his A Multifaceted Look at Starlink Performance - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

Congratulations to both authors and their colleagues who helped make all this good work happen!

Everything you need to know about the competition, including a more specific list of what we look from the best RIPE Labs articles, is available on the RIPE Labs Competition Rules page.

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

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

Flavio Luciani

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.

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A Dive Into TLD Performance

A Dive Into TLD Performance

Arnold Dechamps

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?

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Assessing the Security of Internet Paths

Assessing the Security of Internet Paths

Shyam Krishna Khadka

9 min read

Although many critical infrastructures (CIs) rely on cloud services (e.g., email) for their daily operations, they typically have limited insight into the security status of the paths their traffic might follow across the Internet to reach their cloud provider’s infrastructures. Can a CI know all t…

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An Introspective Analysis: RPKI Deployment Under Scrutiny

An Introspective Analysis: RPKI Deployment Under Scrutiny

Donika Mirdita

8 min read

When it comes to protecting the Achilles' heel of the Internet, the effectiveness of RPKI hinges on the vigilance and cooperation of the entire Internet community.

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

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

Nitinder Mohan

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.

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Innovative Approaches to Combating SPAM: Lessons from IP Leasing

Innovative Approaches to Combating SPAM: Lessons from IP Leasing

Jolita Puzakova

4 min read

SPAM and abuse remain persistent challenges across various digital platforms, threatening user trust and operational integrity. Jolita Puzakova and colleagues explore how they tackle this persistent threat with a three-fold approach.

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IXP-from-Scratch: Building a New IX

IXP-from-Scratch: Building a New IX

Thomas Liske

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 …

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