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The RIPE Labs Article Competition - RIPE 90

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The RIPE Labs Article Competition - RIPE 90

Competition closed

The RIPE Labs article competition for RIPE 90 closed on 4 April.

The winner of the RIPE Labs article competition for RIPE 90 was Katerina Lionta for her piece on How Cloud Edge Infrastructure Improves Round-Trip Time. We look forward to meeting her at RIPE 90!

The second prize went to Tiago Heinrich for the article from him and his colleagues on Hands-On the Network: Our Experience with RouterLab.

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.

How To Never Lose Control Over Your Network

Roland Bless

• 4 Apr 2025

• 12 min read

The complexity of modern networks is increasing, as is the challenge of network management and control. Solutions that rely on AI only seem to exacerbate the issue and today, even well-managed large networks are seeing the consequences. This article presents KIRA, a zero-touch control plane connect…

How Cloud Edge Infrastructure Improves Round-Trip Time

Katerina Lionta

• 17 Mar 2025

• 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…

U2F Hardware Authentication Security Keys, Tony Webster, CC BY 2.0

PeeringDB to Require MFA and API Keys

Leo Vegoda

• 20 Mar 2025

• 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…

Navigating Network Measurements - Routers, Switches, Servers

Tobias Fiebig

• 18 Mar 2025

• 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.

Hands-On the Network: Our Experience with RouterLab

Tiago Heinrich

• 3 Apr 2025

• 8 min read

Traditionally, computer network courses focus on introducing students to the various concepts of the Internet’s architecture and its protocols. While such courses equip students with a theoretical foundation on how the Internet works, they often fail to cover the practical and operational aspects o…

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Routing IPv6 Through Wireguard With MikroTik and Debian

Wido den Hollander

• 10 Mar 2025

• 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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