Summary
Deployment Development
- ESnet/HENP has 14 Collection sites in 8 countries collecting data on > 500 links involving 22 countries
- XIWT/IPWT deployed ~ 10 collection sites using PingER tools
- 600MB/month/link, 6 bps/link, .25 FTE @ analysis site, 1.5-2.5 FTE on analysis
- HEPNRC gathering, archiving
- Long term reports being ported to HEPNRC from SLAC
- Long term analysis today usually requires tool like SAS
Notes:
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).