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- Presented by Les Cottrell at the ICFA/SCIC meeting, July 11 2003
- www.slac.stanford.edu/grp/scs/net/talk03/icfa-jul03.html
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- Measures analyzes & reports round-trip times, losses, availability,
throughput ...
- Low impact on network << 100bits/s, important for many DD sites
- Covers 75+ countries (99% of Internet connected population)
- Provide historical and near real-time quantitative information
- Aggregate by regions, affiliations etc.
- How bad is performance to various regions?
- Trends: who is catching up, falling behind?
- Compare vs. economic, financial indicators etc.
- Use for trouble shooting setting expectations, presenting to funding
bodies
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- 35+ monitoring sites in 15 countries
- Plan to add ICTP Trieste if funded
- SLAC with help from FNAL
- Digital Divide collaboration (MOU) with ICTP, Trieste
- eJDS
- They are looking for a EU grant for eJDS and PingER
- Tried earlier this year, but too late
- Hopeful next year
- Also looking for small grants for helpers in developing countries
- Possibilities: www.cos.com, www.sigamxi.com
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- PingER:
- www-iepm.slac.stanford.edu/pinger/
- eJDS
- ICFA/SCIC Network Monitoring report, Jan03
- www.slac.stanford.edu/xorg/icfa/icfa-net-paper-dec02
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