Measurements and Statistics

What’s the Deal with IPv6 Link-Local Addresses?

Philip Homburg

• 11 Mar 2020

• 8 min read

...or, how RIPE Atlas measurement data just got a little bit more complex. Some people say IPv6 is "96 more bits, no magic". And while this is true for most network operators, if you're a RIPE Atlas system programmer, you can run into interesting situations. In this article, we described how link-l…

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RIPE Atlas Software Probes

Alun Davies

• 12 Feb 2020

• 4 min read

RIPE Atlas probes are now available as software, offering future hosts a new way to help build the RIPE Atlas network. While not a replacement for their hardware counterparts, software probes will improve coverage by bringing RIPE Atlas to new and previously hard-to-reach places.

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Evaluating the Performance of NRENs in Deploying IoT in Africa: the Case for TTN

Marco Zennaro

• 5 Feb 2020

• 7 min read

We analysed the readiness of African National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) to be part of “The Things Network” (TTN). We used RIPE Atlas to measure delay and packet loss from NREN networks to TTN.

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The Debogonisation of 2a10::/12

Emile Aben

• 17 Jan 2020

• 11 min read

We are getting ready to start allocating from 2a10::/12, a new block of IPv6 addresses. In this process we did a couple of 'pre-flight' checks to check the usability of address space in this /12 block.

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Focus on Portugal

Rene Wilhelm

• 4 Dec 2019

• 8 min read

In this article, ahead of this week's PTNOG meeting, we take a look at what our data tells us about Portugal in terms of membership development, IPv6 adoption and routing.

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RIPE NCC Country Report: Germany

Suzanne Taylor

• 19 Nov 2019

• 3 min read

We took an in-depth look at the evolving Internet landscape in Germany as the next in our new series of RIPE NCC Country Reports.

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RIS Live is Live

Chris Amin

• 11 Nov 2019

• 3 min read

Following a successful trial, we are officially launching RIS Live as a supported RIPE NCC service. Here's a quick look at the feedback we received from the trial, as well as an overview of what's new.

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Impressions from the Internet Measurement Conference 2019

Emile Aben

• 4 Nov 2019

• 7 min read

This year's Internet Measurement Conference (IMC) was held in Amsterdam from 21-23 October. In this article we highlight some of the presented work that we think is interesting and that the RIPE community might find useful.

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The New RIPEstat In Other Words

Stephen Suess

• 15 Oct 2019

• 4 min read

In May, with the aim of improving the experience for all RIPEstat users, we started a complete redesign of the RIPEstat user interface. With the prototype UI having received a lot of positive feedback, we’re still busy adding new features, one of which will allow users to switch between languages w…

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Internet Clouds are (also) Unpredictable: A Study on the Effects of Recent Traffic Engineering Trends In Cloud Provider Networks

Marco Chiesa

• 8 Oct 2019

• 8 min read

How does the largest cloud provider worldwide perform Traffic-Engineering? What are the implications for the geo-distributed applications running in the cloud? We explored these and more questions through a comprehensive set of measurements across the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud network.

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