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The Lockdown Effect - Implications of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Internet Traffic

The Lockdown Effect - Implications of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Internet Traffic

Oliver Gasser

10 min read

Oliver Gasser and his colleagues have been investigating the impact of COVID-19 on Internet traffic as seen from a variety of vantage points. Here's an overview of their findings.

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Route Collection at the RIPE NCC - Where are we and where should we go?

Route Collection at the RIPE NCC - Where are we and where should we go?

Emile Aben

13 min read

Over the past months we've been looking at our Routing Information Service (RIS) and thinking about how to make it best fit for purpose. Ahead of our upcoming RIPE NCC Open House on RIS, this post raises a set of open questions to our community aimed at starting a conversation about how we can keep…

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RIPE NCC Internet Country Report: Central Asia

RIPE NCC Internet Country Report: Central Asia

Suzanne Taylor

3 min read

We examine the Internet landscape in five different countries in Central Asia as the next in our series of RIPE NCC Internet Country Reports.

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Looking Inside Outages with RIPE Atlas

Looking Inside Outages with RIPE Atlas

Alun Davies

7 min read

RIPE Atlas probes actively measure Internet connectivity through a variety of measurement types. In this article, we take a closer look at what probes can tell us about outages.

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Using RIPE Atlas to Predict Users' Quality of Experience

Using RIPE Atlas to Predict Users' Quality of Experience

Alan Jones

5 min read

Poor internet performance is often blamed on the network speed delivered by an ISP. While local data transmission speeds can contribute to a bad user experience, there are many other potential culprits. Problems such as the number of devices consuming available bandwidth, the round-trip distance a …

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Our First Glance at the Belarus Outages

Our First Glance at the Belarus Outages

Alun Davies

6 min read

On 9 August, Belarus experienced country-wide Internet outages. Here's a first glance at what our tools and datasets have to tell us about the scale of these outages and their impact.

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The Internet Health Report

The Internet Health Report

Romain Fontugne

7 min read

The Internet Health Report (IHR) is an open source project, partly funded by RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund, that monitors AS connectivity. This article is a quick introduction to IHR and shares some good examples of IHR monitoring capabilities. Interested? Take a look at our website (https://ihr…

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Krill Gains Powerful ROA Management Based on BGP Routing

Krill Gains Powerful ROA Management Based on BGP Routing

Alex Band

5 min read

Over the last two years NLnet Labs has been working on free, open source RPKI software and research for the community, supported by the RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund. We are incredibly excited that six months after the first release of Krill it already powers delegated RPKI for over 150 organisa…

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Route Flap Damping in the Wild?!

Route Flap Damping in the Wild?!

Clemens Mosig

9 min read

BGP Route Flap Damping (RFD) and its use has been a controversial topic in the past. Recommendations have been revised multiple times over the past two decades and still differ from vendor default values. In this article we dive into how we measured Route Flap Damping in the real-world, uncover whi…

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Measuring IP Connectivity with RIPE Atlas

Measuring IP Connectivity with RIPE Atlas

Branimir Petricevic

7 min read

One of the most important but often overlooked criteria when choosing a hosting provider is the performance of its network. Poor network performance for any kind of online service leads to low customer satisfaction. What is the best way to measure network performance that most accurately simulates …

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