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• Deployment Development

  • ESnet/HENP/ICFA has 14 Collection sites in 8 countries collecting data on > 500 links involving 22 countries
  • HEPNRC archiving/analyzing, SLAC analyzing
  • 600KB/month/link, 6 bps/link, .25 FTE @ archive site, 1.5-2.5 FTE on analysis
  • reports available worldwide to end-users to access, navigate, review & customize (via Excel) & see quality
  • 4GBytes of data available to experts for analysis
  • tools available for others to monitor, archive, analyze
    • XIWT/IPWT chose & deployed PingER ~ 10 collection sites are now monitoring 41 beacon sites

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XIWT/IPWT want to:
Measure performance of members' own networks

Get tests to validate and understand what to recommend to other commercial customers and for what purposes.
Build a community within XIWT so can evolve it to address harder issues.
Have chosen the PingER tools for deployment
Collection sites (mar-98): West Group, Bell South (2), Digital (2), HP, Intel, Hughes, NIST, SBC

They are looking for an analysis/archive site

SAS/Oracle can cost several tens of thousands of dollars

Need indexing for rapid lookup

Usually a bit of overkill as an analysis tool (don’t use much in the way of sophisticated statistics).