Digital Divide and PingER

	Presented by Les Cottrell at the ICFA/SCIC meeting, July 11 2003
	www.slac.stanford.edu/grp/scs/net/talk03/icfa-jul03.html

PingER Benefits

	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

Collaborations & Funding

	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

More Information

	PingER:
		www-iepm.slac.stanford.edu/pinger/
	eJDS
		www.ejds.org/
	ICFA/SCIC Network Monitoring report, Jan03
		www.slac.stanford.edu/xorg/icfa/icfa-net-paper-dec02