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Added hosts in Macedonia,
Serbia/Montenegro, Belarus, Turkey, Armenia, Mexico and Azerbaijan,
Tajikistan, Turkeministan, Kyrgyzstan |
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Contacts |
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Working with contacts in Vietnam, the
Philippines, Albania, and Tunisia |
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Looking for contacts in Cuba, Kenya,
Algeria and South Africa, Uganda |
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Working with Iran site to become
monitor host |
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Increased hosts monitored from CERN to
give better European view |
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Now monitoring 60 countries |
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Keep it simple, enable user to do their
own by making data available |
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Tables |
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Time series (www-iepm.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-wrap/pingtable.pl): |
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select metric (loss, RTT etc.), time
ticks, packet size, aggregations from/to, etc. |
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Color code numbers, provide sort, drill
down to graphs, download data (TSV), statistical summaries |
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Monitoring site vs. Remote sites (www-iepm.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-wrap/table.pl): |
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Select metric, region aggregations |
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Drill down to time series, download
data |
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Graphs |
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Select source(s)/destination(s),
metric, time window, SQL selects, graph type |
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Provides quantitative historical (>
8yrs) and near real-time information |
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Aggregate by regions, affiliations etc. |
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How bad is performance to various
regions, rank countries? |
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Trends: who is catching up, falling
behind, is progress being made? |
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Compare vs. economic, development
indicators etc. |
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Use for trouble shooting setting
expectations, identify needed upgrades, choosing a provider, presenting to
policy makers, funding bodies |
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Effort: |
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Negligible for remote hosts |
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Monitoring host: < 1 day to install
and configure, occasional updates to remote host tables and problem response |
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Archive host: 20% FTE, code stable,
could do with upgrade, contact monitoring sites whose data is inaccessible |
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Analysis: your decision, usually for
long term details download & use Excel |
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Trouble-shooting: |
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usually re-active, user reports, then
look at PingER data |
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have played with automating alerts,
data will/is available via web services |
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Ping blocking |
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Complete block easy to ID, then contact
site to try and by-pass, can be frustrating for 3rd world |
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Partial blocks trickier, compare with
synack |
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Derived throughputs poor for well
connected sites (<0.1% loss) |
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Funding |
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“Unfortunately, network management
research has historically been very under-funded, because it is difficult to
get funding bodies to recognize this as legitimate networking research.” Sally Floyd, IAB Concerns &
Recommendations Regarding Internet Research & Evolution. |
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http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-iab-research-funding-00.txt |
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35+ monitoring sites in 15 countries |
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Plan to add ICTP Trieste if funded |
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Other projects used toolkit, e.g. XIWT,
PPCNG/EDG … |
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SLAC with help from FNAL |
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Digital Divide collaboration (MOU) with
ICTP, Trieste |
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eJDS |
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They are looking for a EU grant for
eJDS and PingER |
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Need funding for coming year: |
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Working with DoE, NSF, Pew Charitable
Foundation … |
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Tasks: |
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(0.5 FTE) ongoing maintain data
collection, explain needs, reopen connections, open firewall blocks, find
replacement hosts, make limited special analyses, prepare & make
presentations, respond to questions |
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(+ 0.5 FTE) extend the code for new
environment (more countries, more data collections), fix known non-critical
bugs, improve visualization, automate
reports generated by hand today, find new country site contacts, add
route histories and visualization, automate alarms, update web site for
better navigation, add more DD monitoring sites/countries, improve code
portability |
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Also looking for small grants for
helpers in developing countries |
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ICFA: show importance to policy makers,
funding agencies, identify sympathetic contacts at agencies, get support |
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Ported to IPv6 |
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Valuable light-weight tool for
end-to-end performance |
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Good for trouble-shooting, planning,
setting expectations |
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World wide coverage |
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Performance from U.S. is improving all
over |
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Performance to developed countries are
orders of magnitude better than to developing countries |
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Poorer regions 5-10 years behind |
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Poorest regions Africa, Caucasus,
Central & S. Asia |
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Some regions are: |
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catching up (SE Europe, Russia), |
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keeping up (Latin America, Mid East,
China), |
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falling further behind (e.g. India,
Africa) |
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PingER: |
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www-iepm.slac.stanford.edu/pinger/ |
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MonaLisa |
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monalisa.cacr.caltech.edu/ |
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GGF/NMWG |
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www-didc.lbl.gov/NMWG/ |
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ICFA/SCIC Network Monitoring report,
Jan03 |
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www.slac.stanford.edu/xorg/icfa/icfa-net-paper-dec02 |
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Monitoring the Digital Divide, CHEP03
paper |
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arxiv.org/ftp/physics/papers/0305/0305016.pdf |
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Human Development Index |
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www.undp.org/hdr2003/pdf/hdr03_backmatter_2.pdf |
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Network Readiness Index |
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www.weforum.org/site/homepublic.nsf/Content/Initiatives+subhome |
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